Word: bee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall, the third pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program embraces P. E. Bach's Concerto in D Major for Orchestra, Moussorgsky's Prelude to the Opera Khoruntehina Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherzo "The Flight of the Bumble Bee", Prokorier's Scythi an Suite and Brahms's Fourth Symphony...
...with its 45 votes in the Electoral College. Naturally, Tammany, the local Democratic organization, wanted Smith to run, to strengthen their local ticket which they feared might go down in a national Republican landslide. But Smith did not want to run. That was natural because he had the Presidential bee in his derby hat. He had nothing to gain by running this year, when he might be defeated as he was in 1920; although even in that Republican year he ran far ahead of his ticket. He could afford to retire in 1924, without risking a defeat, and take...
...Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn't two bees...
...Neely, who hides his Christian names (Mathew Mansfield) by the initials "M. M.," is Senator from the State of West Virginia, a state which breeds an eloquence as odorous as the honey of the Hybla* bees. What is more, he is a Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating...
Sebastiani Rondi is a Sicilian lawyer, a resident of Palermo, where the lemons come from. Maurice Maeterlinck* is a Belgian poet, whose symbol is The Blue Bird, and whose greatest work is The Life of the Bee. The poet took a trip through Sicily a short time ago and then wrote about it. Avvocato Rondi read Maeterlinck's opinion of Rondi's home town. Result: Rondi challenged the poet to a duello...