Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James F. Coupal reported that the President is in the pink of physical condition, that he has reduced his weight to 153 lb., that he has not had even a touch of rose fever,* to which he is subject...
Naturally the hard-headed brethren of Wall Street welcomed this superCapitalist defi to Labor, promptly showed their approval of and confidence in the new decrees by buying so many lire that the price rose half a cent...
Paradoxically Dictator-President Kemal rose to fame and power as a general in the Young Turk armies, a subordinate of the men hanged by his orders last week. Not until General Kemal Pasha proved himself the ablest Turkish World War commander was he able to rally a Turkish Nationalist following from within the Young Turk movement and to organize this clique into the present Kemal-dominated Turkish dictature...
...Cave City, Ky., in February 1925-a haunting, primitive, narrative dirge that begins: Oh, come, all you young people, And listen while I tell Of the fate of Floyd Collins, A lad we all knew well. . . . They sing William Jennings Bryan's Last Fight, The Convict and the Rose, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, Little Mary Thagan -and many another sad story. All the tunes are alike, never departing from the few chords within reach of the unschooled accompanist. Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want to go to Heaven...
...Country. Abie's Irish Rose may be nearing dissolution but its soul goes marching on. Last week it paraded into Chanin's Theatre in an earthy reincarnation called My Country and promptly brought down the house...