Word: guests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from spitting on angleworm segments to affixing trout cosmetics and bass liniments. It dwelt on piscatorial beatitudes in a manner that quickly revealed Mr. Hoover as twice the fisherman Calvin Coolidge is said to be, and in a style that revealed Mr. Hoover as a reader of Poet Edgar Guest and probably other standard authors...
...months ago the directors of the Philharmonic Society of New York announced what other orchestra supporters enviously called "the catch of the season"-slim, fiery, volatile Arturo Toscanini of Milan engaged for 1927-28. The Philharmonic had had Signer Toscanini often before but always as a guest conductor. Now he would conduct 41 concerts, be a "regular...
...actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists the weapon as it falls. Nona's arm is grazed, but her parents, unhurt, set out to tour the world. Lita goes back...
...resigning polo captain is rated as one of the strongest college players in the country. Captain Winston Guest of Yale being the only player having a higher outdoor handicap. Pinkerton played on the University team as a Freshman, when first-year men were permitted to play, and was elected leader of the trio the following year. He has led every team since then, and in 1925 captained the outfit to its intercollegiate title...
Though officially retired (TIME, Dec. 27), scholarly Walter Damrosch, for 42 years conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra will reappear next year at his oldtime stand in Carnegie Hall as a guest conductor. Other guests will be Conductors Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera and Ossip Gabrilowitsch of Detroit. And last week the Symphony Society announced who its fourth guest would be-darkly handsome Clemens Krauss, conductor-director of municipal opera at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Herr Krauss, who looks more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame...