Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are four tableaux. On one side of the stage a bride is being prepared for her wedding night, her long hair is being combed. On the other one sees the anointing of the groom. Then comes the blessing and departure of the bride, to the lamenting of her parents. Finally the nuptial celebration, described this way by Conductor Stokowski for the League of Composers' program note...
...expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement of motors on such a ship. Maybe they would be in tandem, one behind the other, maybe they would all be in one line...
Almost as if he knew what Col. Lindbergh had in mind Anthony Fokker, addressing a banquet aboard the new Holland-America Liner Statendam, announced that within six weeks his company would complete a 32-passenger plane powered with four 600 h. p. motors...
...Italy, where for bravery he received the Croce di Guerra. Peace called him back to the U. S. and Yale. He worked his way through by organizing a Co-operative Tutoring Bureau. He was graduated with an A. B. in 1921, entered the Law School for a four-year course. Success and Dr. Angell had already marked him. He succeeded Anson Phelps Stokes, now canon of Washington Cathedral, as Secretary of the University. From studying law he turned to teaching it, continuing his University secretaryship until, two years ago, President Angell made him the youngest Law School Dean...
...defense placed Mrs. Dennett on the stand. She was allowed to answer three or four minor questions, concerning the fact that she had written the pamphlet 15 years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...