Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having held a. "harmony" breakfast with Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, Speaker Longworth and several members of Congress, the President and Mrs. Coolidge attended Easter services at the auditorium temporarily used by the First Congregational Church...
...percussion instruments, ten mechanical pianos, several xylophones, assorted bells, wind machines, aeroplane propellers, etc., abjuring completely more lyrical aids. The ballet is a thunderstorm of noise lasting a quarter-hour. Carnegie Hall, jammed to the guards, sat quite still for perhaps two minutes. Then men began shouting across the auditorium. Paper darts sailed down from the galleries. Some people rammed their fists against their ears. Two women jumped up and left the room, running. Pandemonium continued. Ears ached, foreheads throbbed. There was no denying that all the noises in the U. S. had been reproduced except the explosion of Black...
...centuries men have dreamed of the eye that would penetrate stone walls and miles of space. Last week sight at a distance (television) came true. In Manhattan, in the auditorium of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., talked to his Vice President, General J. J. Carty, in Washington, D. C. Said President Gifford, dapper, cheery: "Hello, General, you're looking fine. I see you have your glasses on." Out of the loudspeaker, General Carty's bass voice boomed: "Does it-ah-does it flatter me?" President Gifford carefully viewed...
Frau Mathilde von Ludendorff, wife of the once potent quartermaster general of the imperial German army: "Having been mentioned in my present husband's divorce suit last summer, having written a book about women, having delved into numerology,* I last week addressed a packed auditorium in Berlin on the subject: 'The real truth about the World War.' Said I: 'We learned that a mystic number was responsible. 1914's digits add up to 15. Fifteen means Jehovah, ergo the War was a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews organized the Sarajevo murder. Fortunately, the good old Aryan...
...April 16, the Club will make a Mid-Western trip. The Harvard Clubs of Providence, Cleveland, and Albany will sponsor concerts in their respective cities: and in addition, New York, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh, and Washington will be visited. The schedule for this tour follows: April 16, Elk's Auditorium, Providence: April 18, Town Hall, New York: April 19, Hotel Stailer Ballroom, Buffalo: April 20, Masonic Hall, Cleveland: April 21, Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh: April 22, Masonic Auditorium, Washington: April 23, Chancellor's Hall, Albany...