Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicagoans throbbed with confidence and gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
...show will play at the Academy of Music in Northampton on Saturday, April 16, and will take the boards in the Penn. Athletic Club in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 21. On the following day, the trip will close with a performance at the Mecca Temple in New York...
There are Harvards beyond the plot which stands poised between the rotunda and Memorial Hall. Not the least of these is that very different plot, the Arnold Arboretum, upon which Professor Charles Spragne, Sargent spent sixty years of patient effort. And he made it not only a Mecca for students of botany but a place of beauty and a Boston institution. In working for his science and for Harvard he did also a service to the commonwealth...
...Thursday, April 7, at 8.15 o'clock in the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse. It will play there until the following Thursday and then go on tour, giving performances at the Academy of Music in Northampton on April 16, the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia on April 21, and the Mecca Temple in New York on April...
...Truth to tell, Washington has become the universal Mecca of human freaks. To that city protagonists of vagaries gravitate by all known routes, some by election, some by appointment, some by 'divine command.' The great majority, however, merely follow noses that itch for the business of others. There they bed and breed...