Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fisher is a sea-wed, as is Nora Bayes, comedienne. The question of the legality of their marriages, and that of all other sea-weddings depends upon whether or not the State in which the vessel is documented lists ship masters among persons authorized to wave the linking baton...
Arturo wields the baton, Benito the thunderbolt. Arturo Toscanini, most famed of Italian opera conductors, has refused for three successive years to allow his orchestra at the great Milan opera house, La Scala, to play "Giovanezza," the Fascist hymn. To the ears of Benito Mussolini reports have come that Toscanini has defended his refusal as follows: "Never! I refuse to turn La Scala into a market place for Fascist demonstrations. They have the square outside and also the Galleria nearby for that, but while I conduct the Scala orchestra, it will remain the home of opera and never will...
From James Smith Hall, D. E. Rounds will hold the baton; W. R. Koch was chosen to conduct the Standish Hall chorus; and J. T. L. Thorup will lead the singers from Gore Hall...
...prizes are a silver cup upon which is engraved the name of the winning chorus, and a silver baton presented to the leader...