Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalist Government has long since changed the name of Peking, meaning "Northern Capital," to Peiping, "Northern Peace...
Pompously 200 Civic Elders led a gorgeous procession to the G. H. Q. of "Old Gimlet Eye." Each elder had written his name on a tag, had attached the tag to the rim of a magnificent red satin umbrella, from which banners also streamed. This was the supreme gift: THE UMBRELLA OF TEN THOUSAND BLESSINGS WITH BANNERS...
...Conqueror of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek, who was chosen President last fortnight, assembled last week an all star Cabinet in which every name is picked with potency...
...decade or two some honest historian should set himself to telling the story of the development of music in the U. S., no name will figure more prominently than that of Walter Damrosch. Today's sophisticates will differ perhaps. They will remember the Strauss of Mengelberg, the Debussy of Koussevitsky, the Bach of Stokowski, the Wagner of Toscanini; and in the fervor of appreciation of individual performances they will have forgotten the millions whose musical sense has been awakened by Damrosch. They will have forgotten that it was Damrosch who first introduced to the U. S. such composers...
...performances in January but first there will be a concert tour through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. In February she begins again in Lancaster, Pa., goes through the South as far as Havana. It took just one hysterical evening in Manhattan to make the Talley name. The harvest, reaped largely on the road, mounts well toward the million mark...