Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moynahan '26 will perform a dance, K. A. Perry '28 will exhibit his powers of ventriloquism and Philip Walker '25 will perform feats of prestidigitation. A duct on two five spring banjos played by C. S. Ferguson '25 and Norton Barber '25, and a reproduction of a negro spiritual by J. L. Riker '26 complete the program...
...Estimates for the Singapore naval base were passed by 280 to 129 votes. The Government contended that it would prevent war, Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary for the Colonies, declaring that enlargement of the base "would be one of the most friendly acts we could perform to the United States, which is in severe danger in the Philippines. It would insure peace in that part of the world for another 100 years." The Opposition, headed by ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, was of the opinion that the existence of a first-class naval base at Singapore was sure...
...first performance, to be conducted by M. Serge Koussevitzky, has attracted so much attention that all seats have been sold out. M. Koussevitzky has consented to act again as guest conductor. The same personnel in orchestra and solists will perform both nights...
Knights. The National Child Welfare Association has a unique plan for improving bad boys. "We will make knights of them," it decided, thereupon founded the "Knighthood of Youth" (or "The Order of Character"). These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They...
...left the village sorrowfully, went to Canton, studied at a British college, left, went to Hong-Kong, studied surgery, became a doctor, was probably the first yellow man to perform a scientific operation...