Word: moors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America by Americans. Last week, at the Chicago Auditorium, these people rejoiced. They heard a native two-act opera, sung in English, composed by an American, Charles Wakefield Cadman, written by an American, Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, conducted by an American, Henry G. Weber, staged by an American, Charles Moor, sung, in the tenor role, by an American, Charles Hackett...
...grace which made him adored of the great ladies of his day and keeps him popular since. "Pinkie" went-to Sir Joseph Duveen. "Pinkie," who was none other than Miss Mary Moulton Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aunt, painted as a young girl coquettishly sauntering over a barren moor before a thunderstorm...
They call it "target" golf and they played it one day last week over the rolling course at Moor Park, England. Five score of the world's ablest professional linksmen were on hand to give it a trial, coveting ?1,000 of prize money...
...this season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Poor Petrushka, superbly done by Adolf Bolm, danced and danced, wriggled and writhed, beat his breast, accomplished nothing, became in the end just the pitiful ghost of the brave puppet he was. Florence Rudolph was the ballerina; Giuseppe Bonfiglio, the dashing Moor who won her; Serge Sondeikine, the author of the dazzling bright sets; Stravinsky, the genius in back of it all, Stravinsky at his best-sure, reckless, rhythmical, vivid...
There are arguments worth presenting against any considerable increase in our present seating capacity, either by enlarging our present Stadium or building a new one, but certainly none of them appear in the CRIMSON editorial. Fred W. Moor...