Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After stirring his business audience so, Dr. Jones made them cringe again by showing them two bombs full of blindex, gas invented by Dr. Byron Cassius Goss, onetime lieutenant colonel with the Chemical War Service, now president of the Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland. Said Dr. Jones to the Chicagoans: "I can take this fountain pen gun, discharge it at a man 20 feet away and in the twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. I could discharge this large gun and blind everybody in this large ballroom in the fraction of a second...
...telephotograph is a Bell Telephone electrical reproduction of any picture. A photogram is such a reproduction of a telegram or document which Bell Telephone sends by its telephotograph for Western Union or Postal Telegraph. Photogram offices are everywhere. Telephotograph despatching-receiving stations are at only Boston, Manhattan, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
When ten-year-olds have birthdays they must have parties. True to its years, then, was the Cleveland Orchestra when last week at home it celebrated the tenth year of its existence, the tenth also under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff and Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes. There was a birthday concert at the Auditorium with the program which was given on Dec. n, 1918. There was a birthday dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron...
...Cleveland Orchestra: "It's not only healthy. It's a very good orchestra. There is not in Paris an orchestra worthy to be compared with it. There are nine orchestras in America which stand superior to the orchestras of any other country in the world-and the Cleveland Orchestra is included in that number. . . . And probably the principal reason it can stand up among the world's greatest is the fact that it has had one conductor for ten years. The idea that an orchestra must have a guest conductor every so often is like a series...
Alceo Dossena lives in Rome, where for years he has sculped in Classical and Renaissance styles. With the secrecy of an alchemist he produces the effect of century-long erosions on his statuary. Alceo insists that he is only a copyist. But he has a Greek Athena in the Cleveland Museum, a Renaissance tomb in the Boston Museum, a chastely draped Grecian maiden in the Metropolitan. The guardians of all these palladiums have been duped. Now they are chagrined...