Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, at Melbourne, Australia, last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist, onetime (1919) Premier and still national hero of Poland, was instructed in British etiquet by a natty emissary of his Excellency Baron Stonehaven of Ury, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Australia. For an instant M. Paderewski's keen eyes snapped, then he bowed: "Say to your Governor, Monsieur, that Paderewski will accord him the honor which he deserves...
Dwellers on the world's flattest continent prepared excitedly last week for a great moment now imminent in their history, the opening of a capital city closely patterned on, but designed to eclipse, Washington, D. C. On a high plateau, equidistant between Sydney and Melbourne, the new capital of Australia has risen, after six years of labor by 3,000 men and more than a decade of intensive planning. Australians, who number less than six million, pronounced last week, with a sense of awful achievement the name of their new Federal Capital, "CANBERRA...
...convention this year will be the second held by the Institute of Pan-Pacific Relations. The first was held in Honolulu in 1925. Countries which were represented then and which will be represented this year will be Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Among others, President Lowell and George G. Wilson, Professor of International Law, will represent Harvard. Other delegates will be Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education, several journalists, economists, educators and ministers, and representatives of the National Students' Federation of America...
...Sydney, Australia, came one Palmer Kent, composer, whom listeners judged-either a lucky fellow or a great liar. He had been on a walking tour in the New Hebrides, where head-hunting cannibals still abound, when a band of blackamoors, nearly nude save for weapons, surrounded him with melting eyes. Defenseless, he instinctively began to wriggle his toes, his feet, his ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, to fling his whole body about in the loose gyrations of the Charleston. So enchanted were the cannibals, he said, that they took lessons, gave him presents instead of eating...
...last week's purchase of Pathé-Cinema control by Kodak Ltd., Mr. Eastman's English firm. The new company Kodak-Pathé, will be sole distributor of Kodak and Pathé in Western Europe. There are separate Eastman kodak companies in England, Canada, Hungary and Australia...