Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment threatening weather caused Queen Mary to remain snug at Buckingham Palace. The King, not so easily daunted, made a short excursion from London out to Newmarket. There, 170 miles fom Giggleswick, His Majesty rode out upon his horse at dawn and ruefully observed only a thin crescent of light in a cloudy sky at the moment of eclipse...
...Bratiano begins when his valet awakens him at 9 a.m., presenting a light, Parisian breakfast of coffee and rolls. Although punctual about this breakfast hour, M. Bratiano is, thereafter, the acme of exquisite and sophisticated ease-of nicely timed delay. "I try to put off until tomorrow," he has said, "the mistakes which people tell me I ought to make today...
...Turkey will continue to advance along the path of social and political development, guided by the light of science and civilization. I proclaim this sacred purpose from the palace which formerly belonged to the 'Shadow of God' on earth [The Sultan], but is now the property of the Turkish nation, which is not a shadow, but a solid fact...
Last year the French Opera Comique visited the U. S. and proved, for one thing, that light opera cannot support itself in Manhattan without special assistance...
...patrons of the French Opera Comique last season was Paul E. Poitras (brierwood importer). To him occurred the idea of building an apartment-hotel with 1,000 rooms, enough to yield an income for the support of light opera to be staged in the same building. The money for the enterprise must be raised among music patrons. While Mr. Poitras is in France, the work of incorporating and financing is handled in part by Erik Huneker, son of the late James Gibbons Huneker, famed music critic of the Sun, Times, World. To James Gibbons Huneker is attributed the remark "Nothing...