Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such composers as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov; such artists as Kreisler, Lilli Lehmann, Paderewski; that Damrosch, first of the important conductors, took stock of jazz and siphoned it off for the seriously musical to take or leave as they would; that Damrosch first took his orchestra on the road, to cities and towns which knew no music; that it was Damrosch who 20 years ago inaugurated symphony concerts for children...
...concert tour through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. In February she begins again in Lancaster, Pa., goes through the South as far as Havana. It took just one hysterical evening in Manhattan to make the Talley name. The harvest, reaped largely on the road, mounts well toward the million mark...
Henry Ford himself drove a new Ford sedan 60 m.p.h. for 8,000 feet, last week, to celebrate the opening of a new stretch of road near Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass. On the day before, Mrs. Henry Ford had made a speech before the Women's National Farm & Garden Association,* characterizing her husband as "easy going." She also said that he had purchased Wayside Inn to save it from becoming "a common roadhouse...
Today the Harvard eleven again performs before the eyes of the athletic world. Its showing against Dartmouth will constitute an important milestone on the road to failure or to success. It is thus not because we harbor any ill will toward the representatives of the Big Green every Harvard man would like to make the week end as pleasant as possible for his Hanoverian guests-but rather because victory is indispensible to a well deserved recognition that we hope to see the Crimson clad warriors on the big end of the score in this afternoon's gridiron battle...
When a silent, bespectacled, fidgety man resigned, last March, as chairman of the board of the Boston and Maine R. R. (TIME, March 26), many a voice was raised in applause and inquiry. It was generally conceded that Homer Loring had done well, for in February the road had made a new high operating record. It was generally asked what Homer Loring would do next, for no one believed the physician to ailing industries would be long without a patient...