Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Erik Huneker (now in his 30's) is of quieter disposition. He has been connected with the musical world mainly through publicity departments, at one time working for the Metropolitan Opera Company. No berserk lion, he will nevertheless have ample opportunity to struggle with a big task. It is the purpose of Opera Comique, Inc., so named in files of proposed corporations in Albany, to raise $6,800,000 by the sale of preferred and common stock. Special charter subscribers who take $4,000 worth of preferred will receive in perpetuity two seats to weekly performances. Charter subscribers...
Southern notables assembled last week at Fletcher, N. C., to sing a song and unveil a tablet to the song's author, Daniel Decatur Emmett, who, though he never took his stand or lived or died south of the Mason & Dixon line,* nevertheless composed both the words and music of "Dixie." Son of Ohio and buried there, Composer Emmett is the adopted son of all "Dixieland." Yet the scene last week in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher ("outdoor Westminster Abbey of the South") was the first of their kind; the tablet, Composer Emmett's first...
...creative task he had set himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when he declares of Oil!: "I can hardly tear myself away from...
Finally, in a garage in Omaha, he smiled at disappointments as he built the Bellanca VIII-a monoplane of large wing surface, with struts, fuselage and tail all designed to give great lifting power. People thought the plane a little queer. Nevertheless, it won 13 efficiency prizes, aided by a little Anzani motor which Mr. Bellanca purchased from a junkman for $75. As everyone now knows, the famed Columbia is a Bellanca VIII equipped with a Wright Whirlwind motor...
...Owing to the fact that the presidential party reached the State Game Lodge at Custer Park after dark, cameramen could not well picture their arrival. U. S. cinema patrons will, nevertheless, see the event quite as if it happened in broad daylight. For, on the following morning, the President and Mrs. Coolidge staged an after-the-show rehearsal and motored up to the lodge with cameras vigorously grinding. ¶Household employes at the State Lodge are under the supervision of Miss Ellen Reilly, White House housekeeper. Miss Reilly came to the White House some twelve months ago. She had previously...