Word: quest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fredrick A. Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, made a startling diagnosis of the condition of music in Europe. Mr. Stock's visit to the older world was partly in quest of new compositions-as is usually the case with a symphony orchestra director who wanders in other lands...
...youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast made the setting of a satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED - From the lobby of the Biltmore to the lots of Hollywood in quest of the non-stop record for making a movie star. Genevieve Tobin in the spotlight. LITTLE Miss BLUEBEARD-A concoction by Avery Hopwood in which Irene Bordoni plays with the sunny side of shady matrimony. Musical Shows...
...MacMillan's object is not a quest of the Pole, but a study of climatic and magnetic conditions in the Arctic region. The influence of the aurora borealis on radio will be observed. The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat ( TIME, May 5) and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age. MacMillan hopes to find definite scientific data as to whether a new glaciation may be expected, but most geologists hold that it is too early to make predictions. The last...
...years Harry Greb (of Pittsburgh) has been swinging wildly with his long arms, butting desperately with his head, and roughing it generally in quest of a world's title. Ever since Johnny Wilson, a second rate fighter, won the middleweight championship in 1920 Greb has been anxious to take the title from him. He succeeded in a 15-round fight at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan. Swarming all over the defender and slashing his face into ribbons of red flesh, he took 13 of the 15 rounds and was awarded the title by decision...
Those who have read "Conrad in Quest of His Youth" may wonder how it is that so many men every June undertake a similar pilgrimage with equally disappointing results. We do not mean to imply that all alumni going back for commencement approach their reunions, with Conrad's objective in mind. Many are too young still to feel the urge. Others have obeyed it in the past and are now too wise. But those grads who have arrived, say, at the stage of their twentieth reunion are neither too young nor too wise--Conrads...