Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last five years the gymnasium classes have been lead by various parttime students, but N. W. Fradd, director of Hemenway Gymnasium, hopes that the acquisition of a new permanent leader will improve the efficiency of the classes...
Richard Strauss sat waiting to lead the Banda Municipala of Madrid in his Don Juan. The band's regular conductor, elderly short & stout Lamote de Grignon, stood in the theatre wings. Came a messenger to Herr Strauss, whispered that a street of Frankfort had just been designated Richard Straussstrasse...
...English actor (retired), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Thew, widow (1926) of the onetime master of the Brexhill Harriers. The Maudes were oldtime neighbors of the Thews at Little Common, near Brexhill. Recently Mr. Maude was offered the role of Samuel Pepys in And So To Bed, also the lead in The Zoo (new play by Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith); said he: "I am already engaged to be married...
...Little good will ever come out of the fantastic schemes of wholesale enthusiasms," said Bishop Slattery. "We cannot be lead into improving our lines along with a throng of fellowmen, and radical plans for overturning existing life at one, blow will never succeed...
Opium. Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack of Boston, technical adviser to the Persian government, urged the U. S., France, Germany, Japan, other drug manufacturing countries, to follow Persia in stemming the flow of poppy juice. He said that Persia, following the lead of India, had agreed to reduce the manufacture of opium 10% annually, which, he said, represented a real economic sacrifice since the export of the drug constituted 20% of the export trade and 10% of the government's revenue. No action was taken...