Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 500 Democratic politicians of Manhattan last week packed into their new Tammany Hall on Union Square. For 90 minutes they milled anxiously through the reception room, the ballrooms, chewing cigars, shaking heads, muttering. Suddenly a door opened at the head of a narrow iron stairway. A man appeared and yelled out: "Curry!" Loud and long did the Tammany leaders cheer. There were free drinks that night in many a downtown speakeasy...
...other "Ben" alarm clocks are all namesakes of the 13½-ton bell in the clock tower of Britain's Houses of Parliament. The big bell was named "Ben" after Sir Benjamin Hall, in 1856 London's Commissioner of Works. Of all clock bells in the Empire none are more storied, more beloved. Therefore last week it seemed a splendid idea to take a movietone of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin listening, in his garden to "Big Ben" clang noon over the housetops...
Peter Modrak will speak at a Radio Colloquium at Craft Laboratory on "Short Wave Transmitters" at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Tea will be served in the lecture hall before the lecture at 4.15 o'clock...
Through the interest and generosity of Mrs. Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge, a recital will be given at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock by William Kroll, violinist, and Kmmannel Bay, Pianist, under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock the third Pop Concert of the season will be given at Symphony Hall, Massachusetts and Huntington Avenues. Prices of seats range from...