Word: cordiality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mission of the First Brigade, Marine Corps, in Haiti has undergone no change. Intercourse with the Haitian people becomes increasingly cordial and very little friction manifests itself...
...second performance, inevitably Die Meistersinger, Conductor Rosenstock made his debut. His appearance bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there...
...second coming of the Corps within as many years. The meeting with the Academy a year ago marked the resumption of athletic relations on the football field after a lapse of thirty-three seasons. This renewing of a contact which in the past has been characterized by its cordial sportsmanship and which in the present gives so much satisfaction, stands forth in the undergraduate mind as probably one of the most agreeable results of the recently inaugurated rotating-schedule policy of the Athletic Association...
After spending the greater part of the University recess in South America, Dr. Glover M. Allen, associate professor in Zoology, has returned to his duties at the University Museum. Traveling through Sao Paulo with the purpose of establishing mor cordial relations with the local museums, Dr. Allen delivered several public lectures at the National Museum of Natural History and Archaeology of the state of Sao Paulo. Later he journeyed to the Instituto Butantan, where he delivered a short address to the staff. Sao Paulo is an agricultural state in which nearly three-fourths of the world's coffee is grown...
...Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect by Linz's old inhabitants, Linz's municipal authorities...