Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buxom Mrs. Gann was unable to take full advantage of her position as acting First Lady because of a pesky cold that kept her within the vice-presidential suite at the Mayflower Hotel. She was determined to get well quickly because she had new and important political duties to perform. The Republican National Committee had arranged for her to address the Federation of Republican Women's Clubs at Detroit early this month. Soon thereafter the Business & Professional Republican Women's Club of Boston would be waiting to hear her. The Second Lady had to get the frog...
...under the direction of Walter Nelson '31, instructor in gymnasium work, and the meet is expected to lay bare talent which has been developing rapidly in the last few weeks. The five events are: parallel bars, horizontal bar, side horse, flying rings and tumbling, and each entrant will perform two optional routines is the event in which he is entered...
...regular Symphony concerts on Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19, when it will sing the "Faust Symphony," by Liszt. The next appearance of the Glee Club with the Boston Orchestra will be on Sunday, March 27, when the two organizations will combine with the Radcliffe Choral Society to perform again the "Mass in B-Minor," by Bach. The scores employed by the singers during the rehearsals and performances of the "Mass" were given to the Harvard College Library in the interests of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society by friends of the late Byron Satterlee Hurlburt...
Even more than to see Spitz perform his high jump, spectators at the National Championships last week wanted to see a mile race in which the overwhelming favorite was a German-American youth who, at the advanced age of 23, is a senior at Pottstown, Pa., High School. A year ago most experts would have selected Spitz as a sure member of the Olympic team but very few would have chosen Gene Venzke, a tenacious miler, seasoned in road races that develop stamina rather than speed, celebrated for a long smooth stride and a tendency to come in second. When...
...first scalp at Custer's Last Stand. Though Black Elk fought, fled, starved with the rest, always he pondered how to materialize his vision. At 17 he grew sick with fear because he could do nothing. An old medicine man advised him: "You must do your duty and perform this vision for your people upon earth." Together they organized an elaborate ritual dance. All the people acted out Black Elk's vision in detail. After the dance everybody, even the horses, felt better. Black Elk lost his fear, taught his people more dances, one comic one with heyokas...