Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh season last Monday night with the usual number of congratulatory telegrams and stiff shirts present. The trick was to distinguish the "voice crying in the wilderness" from the ordinary run of moans and groans, and that takes practice. It was quite a game and went on for seven periods, or episodes, as they are designated in the theatre rule book. The audience fought gamely but after all, seven is several too many...
...that could be asked for, his eye wild enough; and his voice smacked somewhat of the wilderness, but the total effect was unconvincing. The part requires too long a performance of sustained excellence. Miss Francesca Braggiotti, to come to the more important matter of Salome and the Seven Veils, was not quite all we dropped for from that mad, bad daughter of Herodias. To give credit where credit is due, her dancing far surpassed her acting, although in a fury--which seems to have been Salome's favorite mood--she was as sibilant as a cage full of pythons...
...Some seven years have passed now since Augustus D. Juilliard, Manhattan financier, died and left the largest bequest to music ever recorded-the Julliard Foundation. In the summer of 1920 the trustees, businessmen all, announced the appointment of Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, Methodist minister, as executive secretary. Last week the Juilliard Foundation was called to account on the basis of its limited accomplishments for the first five years of its existence in proportion to its resources now known to be more than $13,000,000. It was charged with never having obtained a New York State charter, of acting nevertheless...
...their home in Berlin. Their pilots told the Deutsche Lufthansa (Air League) that not even the Ural Mountains had been an obstacle to an eight weeks' roundtrip; that a passenger route to Peking was perfectly practicable, to be flown in stages with a total of six or seven days in the air. The Lufthansa promptly advertised a provisional service of 40 Berlin-Peking flights for next summer, perhaps with branch lines to Vladivostok and Shanghai...
Professor Murray has arranged a series of eight lectures. The first one will have as its general subject "Tradition". The remaining seven will come on Wednesday and Friday evenings throughout the present month and into the first week of November. His schedule and subjects are as follows: October 15, "The Molpe," October 20, "Metre"; October 22, "Poetic Diction"; October 27, "Architecture"; October 29, "The Heroic Age"; November 3, "Hamlet and Orestes"; November 5, Conclusion...