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Fargo, N. Dak., made the proudest showing of any outside city. Fargo is the home of Mrs. John Alexander Jardine, the Federation's eager, grey-haired president. Fargo and its twin-city, Moorhead, Minn., contributed the week's lustiest singing. At Mrs. Jardine's suggestion the Amphion Chorus of 93 men traveled East. They represented 21 trades and professions, ranging from barbers and buttermakers to doctors and lawyers...
...conditioning." says Chemist Arthur Dehon Little's Industrial Bulletin, "is probably the lustiest and liveliest of the present-day infant industries. It is truly an infant, for it has great vigor, makes plenty of noise, costs a lot of money, is much talked about and is referred to as 'hopeful.' " This brawling infant's importance was recognized last week by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers which awarded its 1934 medal to Willis Haviland Carrier, accredited founder of the air-conditioning industry...
...those dragon's teeth of Revolution that the year 1930 sowed across South America, the Government of Brazil's broad-browed little Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas has proved the lustiest offspring. After four years as an unconstitutional Provisional President, Dr. Vargas last week further stabilized his rule with a new and liberal constitution. It took care of its maker by permitting Dr. Vargas to run for President, but thereafter, as in most South American countries, no President of Brazil may succeed himself...
...were the arguments over drinks and cookies before the judges returned from the jury room, asked four of the contestants to go over their scales. Frederic Langford's topnotes were the lustiest and Frederic Langford was fairly dithering when he knew that he had won. A native of Jamestown, N. Y., he has worked for six years in the Episcopal Church Book Store, recommending reading for women's auxiliaries, going evenings to the opera when he could afford admission to stand. Day after the contest a tinny borrowed piano was carted out of his rooming-house...
...Duncan in Budapest in springtime. She met an actor whom in her later memoirs she called "Romeo."* Out of this awakening came a dance she improvised to Franz Schubert's gentle, tripping Moment Musical. Isadora Duncan has been dead five years, but a Manhattan audience last week gave its lustiest applause to her memory when the Moment Musical was danced once more by her adopted daughter Irma...