Word: onward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the dogmas of the intelligentsia, from earliest times onward, has stood the belief that opera was not to be done in English; and this belief has very naturally been the parent of a widespread conviction, that opera, in America, is an entertainment only for the elite. Mr. George Eastman, always enthusiastic for community improvement, defied both of these doctrines in his theater at Rochester; skepticism has given way to applause, and the American Opera Company, surviving the early lances of critics, will visit Boston with a reputation already made...
Another competition, for words for the Baccalaureate hymn is under way and will also close on March 17, when all compositions must be handed in. The words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Jerusalem the Golden", "Onward Christian Soldiers," or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...
...Georges Nagelmackers died, after exemplifying all his life his motto: "Our work is only commencing." From 1903 onward Mr. Davison Dalziel had been a member of the board and an intimate of M. Nagelmackers. He, now Baron Dalziel, is thus Chairman of the Board of Wagons-Lits by a definite right of succession. His proudest boast is that the Armistice was signed in Wagons-Lits...
...this sorrowful pageant not less than 1,000,000 Britons gazed reverently, last week, as it wound through three and a half miles of London streets. When the principal service began at Westminster Abbey millions more heard over the radio Earl Haig's favorite hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers. To convey the coffin within the abbey came as most august pall bearers, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Field...
...Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept of how to win the War was to husband large reserves of less experienced troops and forge...