Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: A gentle reminder and rebuke. Perry" "Noo Ping Wa, who went to the Pole with Perry"-TIME...
Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...
...Composer and Prince was a project to interpret for Occidental instruments of music the piercing quarter, eight and sixteenth tones beloved of Japanese musicians. Prince Tokugawa, founder of the first Japanese Symphony Orchestra, was not slow to summon tuneful minions who entertained his guest. Attentive were the ears of Pole Stokowski. Later he said to correspondents: "I am confident of finding some way in which the tones which are embodied in Oriental music can be interpreted for Occidental...
Team A Rockaway Hunting Club at Cedarhurst. Harvard 5, Rockaway Club 1; J. L. Pole '28 defeated B. L. Norris, 3-0; Seabury Oliver '28 defeated E. Jonklass, 3-0; A. G. Thatcher '29 defeated B. Miller, 4-1; G. T. Francis '30 defeated W. S. Davis, S-1; B. H. Whitbeck '29 defeated J. H. Harper, 4-1; G.T. J. Wyeth defeated S. M. Dupertius...
...hundred miles from the North Pole Noo Ping Wa, who went to the Pole with Perry, is planning to write a letter. He will have all the months of Arctic darkness to complete the task on his little table in the Canadian Mounted Police station, Ellesmere Land. The August mail boat will bring his reply to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's Christmas wireless...