Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conspicuous, during the last fortnight, have been two minor lawn tennis tournaments in England, wherein the leading amateur women racquet-wielders of the world were thoroughly trounced by a modest 22-year-old, Helen Wills. In the North London finals, she defeated Elizabeth Ryan (U. S. ranking No. 2), 6-2, 6-2. In the Kent semifinals, Miss Wills ran burly Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory (U. S. ranking No. 1) around the court for only 23 minutes, disposing of her, 6-0, 6-1. Next day, that skilled tactician and Wimbledon champion, Mrs. L. A. Godfree (the onetime Kitty McKane...
...luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies make him a handy quicksilver tongue in the thermometer of changing ideas...
...Chinese soldiers who captured me handcuffed my wrists and put me in a freight car. . . . "When they led me up before Chang Tsung-chang [minor anti-Communist War Lord] I said: 'Well, you have searched my baggage and found nothing [incriminating], so why hold me a prisoner...
...OvertureDvorak "Ballet of the Sylphs" from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Selections by the Boston College Octetle Arthur J. Hagan, Baritone Soloist Irish Rhapsody Herbert "The Moldau," Symphonic Poem Smetana "Kikimora," A Fairy Legend Liadov "Marche Slave" Tchaikovsky Hungarian Dance No. 17 in F-sharp minor Brahms Intermezzo from "Amico Fritz" Mascagni Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
...program which will be given at the organ recital in Appleton Chapel this morning immediately after the service will be as follows: Choral in A-Minor Franck...