Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present it is expected that each unit of the Freshman Instrumental Clubs will perform at the Smoker. There is also a possibility that movies may be given, and other speakers are being considered. The definite time for the affair has not yet been determined, although it is to take place in the evening...
...review was arranged. For nearly an hour the President, Capt. Freeman and the Arizona's crew stood at the rail awaiting the Dupont which had miscalculated the battleship's position. When the Dupont did not arrive, as a substitute diversion Capt. Freeman sent his crew into the rigging to perform tricks, led them in three big cheers for their Commander-in-Chief...
...last week, it was pride amply justified. The speaker was William Ludlow Chenery. It was six years since he had left the old New York Telegram-Mail to become editor of Collier's. In those six years the magazine has lifted itself from a quagmire of near-despair to perform what is now one of the marvels of U. S. publishing, a thwacking comeback. The regeneration was essentially an editorial process, planned by Editorial Director Thomas Hambley Beck, executed by Editor Chenery...
Usually only the earnest venture to perform in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall but last week it became known that on April 11 Comedian Maurice Chevalier will sing French songs there; then after a trip abroad he will return to the U. S. for a concert tour...
Siedoi in his wanderings finds old Grigorii, a human companion of his youth. Together they perform the task of herdsman for the village on the Prince's estate. Thus it befalls that Siedoi does occasionally see lovely Svietlana again. Meantime he makes the acquaintance of various village dogs, Katok, the all-around hunter who belongs to the peasant boy Fedka; Riabtchik, the practically insane watchdog; and Tsygan, a watchdog who absolutely is insane, having lived always and only at the end of a chain in a dark stall...