Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board for an hour in the Cabinet Room. One place on the Board remained vacant: A member to represent Wheat, whom President Hoover had not yet been able to find. Two last-minute Board appointees: William Frank Schilling of Northfield, Minn, to represent Dairy Interests; Charles S. Wilson of Hall, N. Y. to represent truck-gardeners...
Among the first to arrive at the Members' Entrance was pepper-tongued Lady Nancy Astor, Virginia Conservative. Springing from her car before it had stopped she dashed into the building closely followed by Lt. Col. Sir Frederick Hall, a fellow Conservative. Both were intent on obtaining a certain comfortable corner seat on the Opposition benches. The instant the doors were opened, in they dashed with 40 other early arrivals. Lady Astor paused for an instant to take a card from an attendant with which to stake her seat. It was a fatal pause. Sir Frederick Hall kept going...
While the British Parliament opened and argued, His Majesty the King-Emperor returned in triumph to London. Still wan and droop-shouldered, King George motored from Windsor to sooty Albert Hall, opposite Kensington Gardens. There state landaus and a squadron of gleaming, clanking life guards awaited him. Smiling happily, with a white tea rose on the lapel of his impeccable morning coat, he entered the first carriage with Queen Mary, regal as ever in a gold colored coat and fur-trimmed hat. Through Hyde Park, down Piccadilly the procession trotted, past cheering crowds...
...private pleasure and the public's good, Conductor van Hoogstraten with the aid of Music Critic Lawrence Gilman, has arranged a longer-than-ever list of special features. Old favorites: The Hall Johnson Negro Choir, Anna Duncan, the Denishawns, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in B-flat. Innovations: George Gershwin's "An American in Paris,'' Deems Taylor's "Jurgen," Edward Burlingame Hill's Symphony in B Flat, Ernest Bloch's rhapsody "America" (with 500-voice chorus). Albert Coates of London, as guest conductor during August, has promised his own Scherzo from The Pickwick...
Baker Krusack is Jencic's confidant and civic tutor. He got Jencic's citizenship papers for him at the City Hall and delivered with them this speech: "Now . . . you belong here and nobody can run over you. If anybody makes trouble for you, stand right up to him and tell him not to forget who you are. . . . The new nationalities are according to jobs. Some of these days nobody will ever say a man is a Swiss or a Slav or anything like that; they will say he is a plumber or a baker or a machinist...