Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warning to the gods with an untarnished skill and dignity that made her few minutes on stage the outstanding moment of the afternoon. Next day she issued a statement that "after this year it would be time for an old lady to retire." Already she has given a season of Golden Jubilee concerts, two seasons of "farewells." Next year, she says, she will devote to teaching and to aiding World War veterans...
...TIME, Jan. 28) and the company left town. Last fortnight the same company gave performances in Chicago. After the Rheingold, the first in Chicago for more than a decade, Chicago seemed unanimously pleased. Critic Maurice Rosenfeld of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "The company began its two weeks' season . . . with great artistic success, with fine stage settings and management, and with a roster of Wagner singers which is far above the usual cast...
...Angeles, Calif., the Bureau of Power & Light announced last month: "Our residential light curves begin to drop at 9 o'clock at this season of the year, and from 9 to 11 the drop is swift and steady. Before 12 o'clock practically all of Los Angeles is asleep...
Canada's mushing season continued, at Quebec. Leonard Sepalla, oldtime musher from Nome, Alaska, loudly exhorted his fine-bred Siberian huskies in the annual three-day Eastern International Sled Dog Derby and finished 17 minutes ahead of Frank Dupuis, a St. Lawrence River Lighthouse keeper with a team of snapping mongrels. Behind Dupuis came Emil St. Goddard of Manitoba...
...weekly series of races was run. The season began with 20 invited guests and ended with scores of interlopers. A blackamoor in jockey silks doled out refreshments. There were printed racing sheets, from Mr. Geddes' own press. A bugle sounded before each start. Comic relief was provided by steeplechase events in which obstacles were placed on the course to cause realistic jumps and falls. In all there were 800 horses, owned in groups or "stables" by 100 people, among them Dramacritic Alexander Woollcott, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Artist Peter Arno, Ziegfeld Ballerina Claire Luce...