Word: ney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week he had just returned from mountain climbing in Mittenwald, Bavaria (famed for violins), with his daughter Eleonor, eleven. Eleonor goes to school in Switzerland, prefers sailing on her father's 20-ft. sloop. Last week she went to Chicago to visit her divorced mother, Pianist Elly Ney.* Mr. van Hoogstraten's hobby is sailing; his horror, fishing...
...will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed to the names of famed Murat, Turenne, Ney. Practical, Government officials pointed out that the title of Marshal of France has been allowed to lapse before. For a great hero in a national crisis the Parliament can always revive...
Last week's N. C. E. meeting was broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were...
Married. Ely Ney, famed pianist, onetime wife of Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten; to Coal Dealer Paul Allais, of Chicago; in Los Angeles...
TIME has already promised a complete and accurate account of Bowling-in-the-Alley on the occasion of next winter's annual tour- ney of the International Bowling League (TIME, Sept. 19, LETTERS), and will welcome material from the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. at that time...