Word: pavilions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What coughers in the audience are to indoor concerts, honking horns, backfire, the drone of airplanes, the crash of thunder and squirpling crickets are to summer concerts. Most audiences and musicians have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next...
Starting at 44, the Crimson dropped quickly to between 31 and 32, and then at the Tech Sailing Pavilion, when the Varsity began to eat ahead, the beat dropped still another point. Bus Curwen kept his sprint under wraps, not going up until the final 30 strokes, and then not over...
...Last week's chief affair of state was the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vichyfrance. By the country from whom Italy once expected to receive Nice, Corsica and Tunis, she was given only the frontier town of Menton, where the zone of occupation ends at a row of pavilion lavatories...
...back as the summer in which Paris was the scene of the great international exposition, Benoit saw Nazi agents actually operating from the German pavilion which then stood on the bank of the Seine. Although their activity was known Benolt claims that the French contented themselves with making heated protests to the German Reich through customary diplomatic channels and accepted as satisfactory the avowed reprimands dispensed by the Berlin government...
France awoke too late to these perils, says Benoit. "Her people were apathetic and unconcerned, her workers jealous of their pocketbooks and not jealous enough of their fatherland," and he goes on to draw a parallel between the Vichy consuls in the United States and the German pavilion at the Paris Exposition. "Vichy is not France," maintains Benoit, "Vichy is Berlin, therefore Germany...