Word: roster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eaton, onetime Baptist pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, now a New Jersey Representative; the other by Democratic Leader Finis James Garrett. The Marine Band played sacred music. The Imperial Male Quartet sang hymns. Chaplain Montgomery prayed at length. House Clerk Page read the roster of the dead: Vaile of Colorado, Madden of Illinois, Sweet of New York, Butler of Pennsylvania, Rathbone of Illinois, Frothingham of Massachusetts, Rubey of Missouri, Oldfield of Arkansas, Faust of Missouri, King of Illinois, Gooding (Senator) of Idaho...
...world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order to enter the hall where the intricate, fascinating...
...Rhodes Scholars have taken and are taking a prominent part. For example, the O. U. D. S. have broken a precedent by making an American Rhodes Scholar, an undergraduate resident in college, producer of the Winter Play, "Othello". The names of Rhodes Scholars may be seen in the roster of many clubs and societies in which they are active and prominent. The success of the group as a whole augurs well for the future. Time out to be allowed by their critics. The historians of the next century may be in a position to judge of the accomplishments and successes...
...other. Victor calls it rightly a $15,000 record, tells purchasers on the jacket that "for more than a generation it has been the particular privilege of the Victor Company to satisfy all musical needs, and all musical tastes. Its ability to do so is self-evident in the roster of famous names that have won the distinction of 'Victor artists'. . . . The American musical scene includes, in a conspicuous place, what is known as 'concert jazz' music. Herein, at present, lie great possibilities of American contribution to musical art. Realizing these possibilities, Victor, in conformity with...
Pegasus, Daedalus & Icarus, Archytas, da Vinci, Mongolfier, Santos-Dumont, von Zeppelin, Langley-with these names, the historical roster of aviation, President Coolidge led up to his tribute to the Wright Brothers, in an address to the 125 delegates at the International Civil Aeronautics Conference (see p. 23), which President Coolidge had called to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk...