Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Numerous other diversions were provided. Oldtime fiddlers had a contest, rasped out "Money Musk," "Soldier's Joy," "Leather Breeches." At the live stock and horse show blue ribbons went to Best Steer Lothian Count IV, to Best Mare Margot. Samuel McKelvie Sr.. father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate...
After a meal during which Britain's heroes studiously avoided the topic of warfare, talked of their families, their businesses and the Lord Mayor's show which they had just witnessed (see p. 26), Edward of Wales rose to speak. Said...
...show that he really likes the theatre and is well enough to take it straight without music, the King-Emperor went two nights later to chuckle at Marie Tempest ("the British Mrs. Fiske") in St. John Ervine's comedy The First Mrs. Fraser. Pieces passed up by Their Majesties included Shaw's new Apple Cart, Barrie's old Dear Brutus, and a magnificent Gilbert & Sullivan revival sequence at the Savoy Theatre, now sumptuously rebuilt and gone modernist...
...Tropical Nights", the stage show, starts in like a Hemenway five o'clock gym class but has a bright spot in the appearance of the "Keller Sisters and Lynch" a song and dance team far better than the typical run. There is also an amusing tumbling...
...There are several of Harvard's most eminent scientists who are among the most sincerely religious men I know", he said. "Such professors are not attempting to unsettle the religious convictions of their pupils. They are merely trying to show them the modern point of view. They are seeking to show how religion expresses the highest values in our day just as it stood for the best that men saw in other days...