Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GEORGE WASHINGTON was chosen for President, and not Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Calvin Coolidge...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was chosen Vice President, and not John Adams, John C. Calhoun, Calvin Coolidge or Charles Gates Dawes...
JOHN HAY was chosen Secretary of State, and not John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Richard Olney, Elihu Root or Charles Evans Hughes...
Chiang Looms. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, a bantam weight, trim-figured "Nationalist," who disdains pomp and affects a simple khaki uniform, loomed, last week, as likely to be first in the field of springtime civil war. His personal headquarters are at the great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however...
...Original began like all great composers as an imitator. First Brahms was his idol, then Liszt, then Wagner, then Richard Strauss by reason of his Zarathustra, then Liszt again. It seemed peculiarly ironic last week that the Rhapsody, fruit of the Liszt influence, should have been chosen as his introduction, for the mature Bartók has now turned his back on Liszt and his theatrics. Liszt claimed a native Hungarian music when he took gypsies' tunes and made them into rhapsodies. But gypsies were not Hungarians, Bartók held, their jiggings not the real musical stuff...