Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pole dash, World War flier, second in command of the ill-fated Shackleton expedition to the South Pole-induced the American Geographical Society and the Detroit Aviation Society to back an east-to-west flight over the North Pole. This was before either Byrd or Amundsen reached the Pole from Spitzbergen...
...blue noses wish they hadn't promised to throw in the first ball. President Coolidge in a brown fedora, Mayor Walker in spats, Mayor Mackay of Philadelphia in his winter overcoat, tossed in the new white balls and in New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, the games began. Mostly the crowds yelled to keep warm, but in Manhattan they had another reason. Before them occurred a dramatic happening...
...third performance took place in Orchestra Hall in Detroit, and the next in Masonic Hall in Cleveland. After both of these performances the cast attended buffet suppers given by alumni. The Cleveland visit was somewhat marred by the discovery that during the show several members of the cast has been robbed of sums amounting to about $150 by a chief rummaging through their clothes in the dressing room...
...written notes to sound its sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...
There are 7,800,000 rats in Detroit. They do a damage of $60,000,000 a year. So says the U. S. Public Health Service...