Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will it be possible for the next three generations of Steinways to make such a fortune in the piano business as the last three? A flying hint from here and there has lately indicated that the prestige of the pianoforte is failing. Last month, for instance, one Hugh Blaker wrote a letter to the London Spectator: "Sir, If it is correct that the popularity of the piano is declining, it will be the greatest stimulus to the appreciation of pure music since the Seventeenth Century. Almost all the vulgarity and over-cleverness of modern musical expression can be traced...
...Ford Hall Forum has also announced that Professor Hugh Mearns '02 of the Educational Department of Columbia University will speak at Ford Hall of Sunday. Both lectures will start at 7.30 o'clock...
...headed by Dwight W. Morrow, concluded its busy hearings last week. The list of men it heard was very long, the more important including: Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; Orville Wright; Admiral S. S. Robison, commanding the U. S. Fleet; Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff; Postmaster General New; General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service; Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired; Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz; Commander Richard E. Byrd just returned from the far north with MacMillan; Grover Loening. High spots in the testimony...
...been accustomed to put some check on our male Maenads of noise. Thus end the old cheers and their leaders have served long, faithfully, and well. For pity's sake let us restore them before--for lack of practice in the art--we make ourselves utterly and unamusingly jackassical! Hugh Whitney 1G., 1324 Massacuhsetts Avenue...
...opened offices, issued an appeal* for a fund of $2,000,000. Some 6,000 American residents of the Philippines are members of the Association, and the campaign for funds is sponsored by General Wood, William Howard Taft, W. Cameron Forbes (former Governor General), General James G. Harbord, General Hugh E. Scott, Martin Egan (of J. P. Morgan & Co.). The appeal for 1,800 needy mestizo children, as they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving. Generally of a high-strung, nervous temperament, and rather emotional, their blood characteristics appear very prominently. They have initiative and imagination, which...