Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year the team lost to Yale 2-0, but with much good veteran material the team is expected to perform more creditably this year
...night before the Yale game the Glee Club will perform in New Haven as the guests of the Yale organization. On December 6, the University singers will again appear in Symphony Hall in a presentation of five "Mystical Songs" by R. Vaughn Williams, the well known English composer. Appearing with the Glee Club will be Madame Margarethe Matzenauer, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Company. An engagement has also been made to appear in a dual concert with the Smith College Glee Club toward the end of April. As last year, the Christmas trip will again take the Glee Club...
Quadrennially, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not the form. What they do formally is to elect an Electoral College, which casts the actual vote for a President and Vice President. This vote is cast on the second Monday in January. It is not counted and tabulated until the second Wednesday in February, more than three months after the result has passed into history...
...swear to support the Constitution of the United States. I pledge myself as a Catholic citizen and a Knight of Columbus to enlighten myself fully upon my duties as a citizen and to conscientiously perform such duties entirely in the interests of my country and regardless of all personal consequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot, to promote reverence and respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs...
Soap. Thoroughgoing in most White House economies, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge failed to perform one of the oldest and simplest housewifely tasks. Had she liked, she might have gone into the kitchen, selected a few goodly-sized pans, mixed animal fats (ox, hog) with oils (cottonseed, coconut) and lye-then put the mixture to boil. When it had reached a proper consistency, she would have run it off into frames, allowed it to cool and harden. Without much difficulty, she would have made enough soap to stock the White House bathrooms and kitchens for many a month...