Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrician London remained studiously unconscious, last week, that a female evangelist from California was preaching what she seemed to call her "Four Square Gospel" in famed Royal Albert Hall. Those of the nobility and gentry and middle classes who reflected upon the matter appeared to feel that the Holy Bible still offers a sufficient choice of Gospels. But of course the London mob, the lower classes, rushed to attend the evangelistic First Night of Aimee Semple McPherson. They 'ad 'card vaguely that Missis Mc-Pherson came from 'Ollywood; and, 10,000 strong, they packed and sweated...
...University of California, Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, plant physiologist, took a chunk of pre-Cambrian rock. The piece came from Canada. Geologists considered it 100 to 200 million years old. Professor Lipman split the chunk and from the fractured surfaces scraped what he hoped were primeval microbes...
Charles Bernard Lipman is also a dean, of California's graduate division since 1923. He studied at Rutgers when his older brother was first an instructor there...
...California takes its opera in concentrated doses, in early autumn, the San Francisco Opera Association first, then the Los Angeles Opera Association. The producing companies and the repertoires are essentially the same with Gaetano Merola director of both, and many of the same singers. Some 5,000 heard Aida in San Francisco's Dreamland Auditorium. Then came La Cena delle Beffe, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera...
Motoring to Elizabethton from the rail-road station at Childress, the Nominee's motorcade was delayed by street-jaming crowds. Factory whistles droned. Bands played "California, Here I Come" and "Dixie." Bombs burst in midair. The cheering was continuous. There was no heckling...