Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME did not criticize John Coolidge's having a private detective. TIME, Oct. 17, reported the Nation as having so criticized, quoting the Nation's query: "Are we to wind up by charging the American people for a nurse for Calvin Coolidge's fourth cousin's baby girl Gwendolen or a veterinary for his wife's great aunt's pet poodle Trixie...
...first of the golden anniversary concerts given last week Walter Damrosch was not in his usual place, sat instead in the centre box and led the applause for Fritz Busch. Guests followed his lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera for the first half season, then Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, Walter Damrosch himself, Maurice Ravel, coming from France, and Enrique Fernandez Arbós of the Madrid...
...Boston Symphony, opened its fourth season under Serge Koussevitzky, gave two worthy catholic programs - Stravinsky, Debussy, Brahms, Berlioz, Bach-Schonberg, Richard Strauss, de Falla. "This year," read a foreword in the program book, "owing to increased expenses the deficit is likely to be $85,000, and we ask all those who are anxious to see these concerts continue to subscribe towards the deficit." Figures showed the operating expenses increased by $32,696; the gross income $717,886; the gross expenditure...
...fourth consecutive year the Arlington High School harriers won the interscholastic cross country championship on the Soldiers Field flat, two and one-half mile course Saturday, while two schoolboys smashed the former record of 13 minutes 42 seconds. Coady Jordon of Hebron Academy finished first in 13 minutes 35 seconds, while Marshall Kingsbury of East Providence High came in second in 13 minutes...
...fourth quarter Moses Ellis '28 made a 55 yard punt from his own 15 yard line which rolled to the Juniors 20 yard line. On the next play Chandler Robbins '28 blocked the Junior punt, but the Juniors recovered the ball. A bad pas from center sent the ball back of the Junior recovered the ball back of the Junior goal line, where Garrity recovered, scoring a safety for the Seniors...