Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clowns. One hundred "Joeys" (from Joe Grimaldi, famed clown) operate explosive Fords, ride horses, asses and zebras, tumble, fight, imitate comic strip characters, allow themselves to be shot, kicked, mashed and butted, perform circusdom's oldest act?the Fire Alarm...
...remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year only three birds were left. After Dec. 8, 1928, there was only one heath-cock in all Martha's Vineyard. Wary, he was seldom seen far from the scrub oaks where he "used," but occasionally observers saw him perform his kind's famed nuptial dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known to boom before. Then he too disappeared and last summer...
...orchestras alone have given it 154 performances, the Fountains, 71 performances, Roman Festivals (third poem in the cycle) 45 performances. Royalties in such cases mount up. Respighi, Stravinsky and the later works of Richard Strauss are expensive to perform. The Philharmonic has to pay $40 each time it plays any one of the Roman poems. (For the privilege of Maria Egiziaca's première, the Philharmonic paid $500.) If the performance is broadcast, Columbia Broadcasting has to pay nearly as much again...
While not long ago angry mobs occasionally barred a medical examiner from entering the mortuary where he was to perform an autopsy, the attitude of the general public toward the examination of the dead has undergone a complete change, and exhumations and careful post-mortems are now often demanded, Professor George Burgess Magrath '94, incumbent elect of the chair of Legal Medicine, declared in an interview yesterday...
...Killian demonstrate in Philadelphia. Thus he could clearly see the smallest details of dark recesses, and reproduce them in drawings of exquisite details. (He is notably skillful at freehand drawing.) If he could see into a windpipe, lung or gullet, why not reach into them- remove foreign bodies, perform small operations? It was only necessary to invent forceps, pincers, clamps, scissors, knives small enough to slip through the tubes. They must be operated by long, slender The University of Pennsylvania created a Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic for him. There he has taught to hundreds of graduate doctors, among them...