Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Street Banjo Club Densmore At Father's Door Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes Glee Club Messers Hanighen and Eiseman, Mr. Stetten Specialties To a Wild Rise MacDowell On the Beautiful Blue Danube Strauss Mandolin Club Sunny Disposish How I Love You Orchestra Mr. Biltcliffe Specialty Border Ballad Australia Glee Club Harvard Songs Banjo and Glee Clubs
...conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
Though the Duke and Duchess of York have thus far taken all Australian manifestations with unfaltering good humor, a very different attitude was observed in Dame Margaret Helen Greville, intimate friend of Queen-Empress Mary, upon her return to London last week from Australia, where she had gone to prepare the social side of the welcome for the Duke and Duchess...
...work. "Immigrants are not treated well out there. They are spoken of as 'pommies,' the reference being to their bright cheeks, which look like pomegranates, and 'low-downers.' I would most decidedly advise a man with a family and not much money against going to Australia." Reputedly such frankness has irritated Queen-Empress Mary, and, perhaps as a result, Dame Margaret was reported in despatches to have withdrawn to her estate, Polesden Lacey, Dorking...
...conductors, instrumentalists and singers have achieved mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert...