Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving a victorious U. S. flag over the smoke-swathed battleground from a papier mache rock. To the enduring credit of the cast and its producers, who intend to present a series of hardy old-time melodramas, The Round-Up is played with sincerity and as much restraint as the lines allow. A seat for The Round-Up should be worth $1 (top price) to anybody...
Chicago was thunderstruck. Its symphony orchestra, third oldest in the U. S.,* has always appeared to be built on solid rock. Fathered by 50 Chicago businessmen, it was a thriving two-year-old at the time of the World's Fair (1893). Conductor Theodore Thomas of the drooping mustache was having it play Wagner excerpts new even to Europe. In the panic of 1894 its deficit was only $20,000. Ten years later it built a home of its own, supposed to insure its permanent endowment. Violinist Frederick August Stock, a German of sound musicianship whose very bearing imparted...
...with an ice climb on Mount Washington, it has been planned by the officers, Alden Megrew '32, president, and Archibald Callendar '32, vice-president. The members of the club will leave on Saturday and return late on Sunday. In the following weeks the club will engage in week-end rock climbs in the Blue Hills Reservation and in the Quincy granites quarries...
Learning tennis, at Piping Rock Club, L. I., the Pool brothers, Lawrence and Beekman, often tried the patience of their instructors; but they acquired the foundation for the squash rackets they learned later, at Harvard. At the National Squash Rackets tournament in Baltimore, last week, Lawrence Pool, defending champion, lost to T. E. Jansen Jr., of Boston, in the quarterfinals. Next day, Jansen played Younger Brother Beekman Pool who, still at Harvard and vastly improved in the last year, was at the top of his graceful, fast and brilliantly deceptive game. Pool won the first two sets...
...severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...