Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentlemen of the chorus perform a clogging act which is as complicated as the ones put on by the solo dancers in other shows. The time spent in front of the long-suffering audiences of Stamford and Atlantic City while the chorus achieved its perfection was justified by the applause of the Back Bay connoisseurs...
Died. Frederick Cocks Hicks, 53, Alien Property Custodian, Eastern Director of the Republican National Committee during the last election, four times Republican Congressman, Quaker, financier; at Washington, of instantaneous collapse while watching the famed magician Howard Thurston perform in a Washington theatre...
Yesterday, just at dusk, the Sophomore class of 1863 assembled with proper decorum, to perform the funeral obsequies of the football...
Dearly Beloved:--We have met together on this mournful occasion to perform the sad offices over one whose long and honored life was put an end to in a sudden and violent manner. Last year at this very time, in this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance, (Slightly swollen perhaps) and the elasticity of his movements, gave promise of many more years to be added to a long life, which even then eclipsed the "Oldest graduates...
...never the rage; when professionals perform in public, the occasion involves little or no ticket speculation; even devotees speak of "a quiet corner for chess." But when, three weeks ago, 21 experts from Austria, Germany, Cuba, Mexico, the U. S., England, Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia gathered in the Metropolis Hotel in Moscow for a formal dinner before their tournament, the Soviet Government took official notice, and great daily newspapers of the U. S. published editorials pontifying upon their activities in general and focusing the reader's gaze upon one man in particular...