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Pomp for Hoare. Motto of the House of Hoare is Hora Venit, and last week it seemed indeed that the hour of Sir Samuel and Lady Maud had come. They were still in their big house at No. 18 Cadogan Gardens, but the estate agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New British Strategy | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...stepped Brother Martin, a superannuated shell of a man, white-haired, white-faced, stolidly resigned. Only one argument arose while his $50,000 bail was being arranged. Prosecutor O'Hora asked that the prisoner be ordered to stay in Illinois. Insull's attorney objected: "He wants to go to his daughter's home across the state line in Morocco, Ind. It's the only place he has to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Morocco & Istanbul | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...fourth concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting series will be presented tonight by Mr. Whiting at the pianoforte, assisted by Mr. Gilbert Ross, violin and Mr. Isadore Bery, hora. they will play Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and a trip by Brahms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whiting Concert Tonight | 3/23/1927 | See Source »

...Yale in 1892, became professor of music at St. Paul's School, Garden City, and in 1894 was appointed professor of music at Yale. In 1902 he received a degree of Doctor of Music from Cambridge University, England. He is the author of much sacred and secular music, including "Hora Novissima," the only American composition ever played at the Chester Festival in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Parker of Yale in Fogg Museum | 1/4/1906 | See Source »

...Hyperion theatre Professor Horatio Parker's "Hora Novissima" was performed by the Gounod Society of New Haven. In the evening the campus was illuminated, and scenes from the history of the college were presented under the auspices of the Yale Dramatic Association. A chorus of three hundred voices led in singing Yale songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Bicentennial | 10/23/1901 | See Source »

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