Word: conned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock: "Tannhauser." Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg Wagner Ballet Music from "Othello" Verdi Largo Handel Overture to "Gwendoline" Chabrier Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished" Schubert 1. Allegro mederato 2. Andante con moto Rossiniana, Suite from "Les Riens" of Rossini Respight a. Caprl and Taormina: Barcarole and Siciliana b. Lament c. Intermezzo d. Tarantelle (with a Passing Procession) Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana Valse Triste Sibelius Gypsy Dance from "Carmen" Bizel Hungarian March. "Rakoczy" Berlioz
...feet or with the bunions from which the troupe derived its title, jogged through Manhat- tan to Madison Square Garden where, after 20 miles on a board track, they finished a transcontinental (3,422.3 mile) marathon. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle and his associate W. H. ("Easy") Pickens con- gratulated Winner Andrew Payne of Claremore, Okla., promised to pay him $25,000, promised John Salo of Passaic, N. J., $10,000 for finishing second, 15 hours behind Payne, promised Phillip Granville...
Also running noticeably - FUNNY FACE, MANHATTAN MARY, SHOW BOAT, CON NECTICUT YANKEE, THREE MUSKETEERS, THE FIVE O'CLOCK GIRL...
...Continental Congress is shown, how is it to portray the strifes and the animosities and the high currents on feeling that crossed each other as each representative of the thirteen different states clamored for the specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from such a history. In science, where an exact process is performed before the camera, such a course is reasonable and commendable. Equally, when in the field...
...Coolidge. A report from Washington that President Coolidge had decided to run again, sent the New York stock market zooming aloft. Polite amazement was professed at the White House, but no statement came forth, con or pro. Observers judged that amazement of another sort was felt privately at the White House when Mayor Thompson's "Coolidge-anyway" movement in Chicago came out last week with a platform which included the plank: "Repeal the Volstead...