Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus by all the 4,000 and most of the audience...
...professional golfers, he has been the direct antithesis of erratic unorthodox Leo Harley Diegel. On the careless hillocks and ridges of Muirfield and Moortown where he had his first taste of European golf, Golfer Smith generally had to forego his orthodox stance. In St. Cloud, however, the land's conformity did not interfere with his form. Furthermore, there was no wind, and the shimmering heat had baked the clay soil so that the balls seemed to be rolling on billiard tables. The best Smith scores were two consecutive...
...poop deck a sack of mail will be laid. A plane with a steel ball hanging by a rope will pass over the ship, dragging the ball across the platform. The ball will engage the sack, which the plane will draw into its fuselage, as she flies to land...
...convention in Denver this week. An unemployment crisis, now acute, started in 1926 when Warner Bros., as licensee of Western Electric Co., introduced to Manhattan audiences the Vitaphone. In 1927, Fox Film Corp. gave its first public demonstration of Movietone. Today, approximately 2,000 theatres throughout the land have been wired for sound picture showing...
...train anxiously at several cities, to ask questions, give advice, promise what he could. Small, German-born, energetic, "Joe" Weber used to be an able windman in the Cincinnati Symphony. The Musicians' Union, largely "Joe" Weber's work, is one of the strongest labor organizations in the land - or was, until talkies came. For himself, "Joe" Weber does not have to worry. Besides being a musician, he is a prosperous adept in the science-art of Chiropractic...