Word: biennially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati, last week, was held the 26th biennial music festival, one of the oldest, most thriving traditions of its kind in the U. S. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, directed by Franz van der Stuckin, a festival chorus, a children's chorus of 300 thin but adeptly trained voices procured from the local free schools, several famed singers, participated. Large and earnest audiences turned out for the proceedings. On the opening day, the assemblage (some 4,000) rose and sang America. After this rousing start, Sir Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius...
...fourth biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America, in Chicago assembled, had read to it a Coolidge greeting: "As I study the three great movements of humanity into the American Colonies-the Puritans into New England, the Lutherans and Quakers into Pennsylvania, and the Cavaliers into Virginia...
...Eighth Biennial Conference of the Young Women's Christian Association, in Manhattan. This was a truly international affair, in which women from all over the world?white, saffron, café-au-lait?took part. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came unexpectedly from Washington to deliver an address, at the instance of Mrs. Frederick Paist, his sister and President of the national organization. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., celebrated the convention by giving an international house-party for a number of delegates?including Countess Elsa Bernadotte, niece of the King of Denmark, and Mrs. H. C. Mei, head...
...United Mine Workers of America opened their biennial convention at Indianapolis, and the public turned an interested ear to find out whether there would be a soft coal strike in the coming Spring. The question was not definitely decided in the first week's session. But in the repeated triumphs of President John L. Lewis, there were indications of "no strike...
...ninth biennial exhibition of con temporary American paintings, current at the Corcoran Galleries, Washington, D. C., until Jan. 20, shows 383 pictures by 286 artists. A large daily attendance of national capital distinction shows critical appreciation of a display whose moderately conservative character is indicated by the names of the Clark prize winners, respectively: George Bellows, Charles W. Hawthorne, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Noble...