Word: marly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Symphony came last week to Manhattan-with Serge Koussevitzky for conductor, Contralto Margarete Matzenauer, Tenor Tudor Davies, Baritone Fraser Gange for soloists, the Harvard Glee Club for a Chorus, and Speaker Paul Leyssac. This combination gave, as it did a fortnight ago in Boston (TIME, Mar. 5), the Œdipus Rex of Igor Stravinsky. Even the ablest critics sometimes disagree. Said Samuel Chotzinov (the World): ". . . a desperate attempt at a musical interpretation of lofty cosmic tragedy . . . a presumptuous drive with nothing of any consequence to back...
...Helen Mar with her cargo had disappeared under the Indian Ocean in 1844. The family which lived at Falkirk, Scotland, was poor. Robert Dollar's mother died, and his father began to drink. At 13 Robert Dollar emigrated to Canada, got a job as chore boy to a cook in a lumber camp...
...Vatican Bond Issue, sold in the U. S., to finance the building of the College for the Propaganda of the Faith, potent Catholic Missionary institution. The Pope had summoned George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago to Rome, so that he might see the cornerstone of the college laid (TIME, Mar. 5); last week, the Cardinal was expected soon to arrive at the Vatican, but the cornerstone laying would, it seemed, be delayed by the illness of Willem Cardinal van Rossum, present head of the Propaganda Fide. This was unfortunate, because Cardinal Mundelein had contemplated an almost immediate return...
...would be cause for bewilderment if a Manhattan theatre season could proceed to its conclusion without interference from the District Attorney. When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...
...revolt against Mexico, Texas declared her independence Mar. 2, 1836. A constitution having been adopted, David G. Burnet, Mar. 16, 1836, was chosen temporary president. Independence was won at the battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. An election for president was called in the following September. Sam Houston was chosen and inaugurated thereafter. He was reelected, and inaugurated Dec. 1841. In 1844, a few months before Texas was admitted to the United States, Anson Jones was elected president serving till Texas became a state...