Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glance what they represent. 2) At a convention of bandmasters in Toronto. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor of the U. S. Navy Band, reported that the President's musical tastes were "pretty broad," that for relaxation he liked to hear "Home on the Range" and "My Wild Irish Rose" 3) At an auction at the Union Art Galleries, Manhattan, a clothbound first edition of Treasure Island, bearing the bookplate of Eugene Field, was knocked down to the President for $90, on a bid submitted by mail...
Great black clouds of insects hummed softly over eastern Arkansas last week. Above waiting fields the sun rose higher each day but on many a farm spring planting had stopped dead. Some farmers tied smudge-fire buckets to their plows, tried to go ahead. Others gave up, herded their livestock into barns, circled them with smudges. Still others, too late, found their horses and mules choked, sucked, poisoned. By the week's end nearly 1,000 horses & mules lay dead in their tracks, and desperate farmers were crying to Red Cross and Government for relief...
...rode down London's Birdcage Walk one night last week to Wellington Barracks to drink a sherry apéritif, eat a dinner with the officers of the Welsh Guards of which he is colonel. With the walnuts, the port was set before him and passed clockwise. Everybody rose to drink the King's health in port, after which it was permissible to smoke...
...often does Dallas see a premiere, let alone one by the Sage of Adelphi Terrace, whose U.S. representatives, the Theatre Guild, had sanctioned the performance. Nevertheless, Dallas' critical fraternity rose magnificently to the occasion. Observed Critic John Rosenfield Jr. of the Morning News...
...Nora Bayes: "Down Where the Wurtzburger Flows," "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" "Take Me Out to the Ball-Game," "When It's Apple-Blossom Time in Normandie," "Come Along, My Mandy," "The Broken Doll," "Please Keep Out of My Dreams," "Over There," "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose," "Japanese Sandman...