Word: englands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization was founded in England in 1911 by Cecil Sharp, a collector of folk songs and music of old folk dances, who started the group just before the dances died out in the country. Since then the interest in the Society has spread to the United States and organizations have been established as branches of the English one in many of the larger American cities. There are such groups in Boston, New York City, Cleveland, and Rochester...
Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time...
...General Motors' present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane...
...England, Guy Fawkes' Day; national celebration with fireworks and bonfires commemorating Fawkes' "gunpowder plot...
Arlington high was the first New England school to place, turning in a score of 123 points for a poor third. G. Buckley of Arlington was the first of his team to finish, arriving in fourteenth place. The course measured about three and one-half miles, being three trips around Soldiers Field...