Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gore of Oklahoma stood up to second. Mr. Gore is blind but Mr. Gore is cheerful. Excerpts from the Gore speech: "Four years ago the Republican Party went to New England to pick a candidate. This year they have to go to old England." "Republicans already have begun to sing 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.'" "Mr. Hoover went too far and stayed too long." "Let us all make up, no matter whom we have to kiss. . . . We shall, as Democrats, have at least one advantage-we won't have to kiss in the dark...
...denied one of the clemency pleas, granted the other pleader a reprieve. Accordingly, one Wilmot LeRoy Wagner was electrocuted at Sing Sing for killing two State Troopers who tried to arrest him in Caneadea, N. Y., last summer; and one Ludwig Halverson Lee, convicted of killing and dismembering two women, was told he might live until July...
...padding payrolls in the Street Cleaning Department, to the extent of perhaps $5,000,000 per annum, three public servants of New York City were last week sentenced to Sing Sing prison. A foreman, William J. Lougheed, had "peached" on William J. Oswald, his superintendent, and Benjamin J. Stoeber, Lougheed's assistant...
...Chicago, sponsored by Louis Eckstein, there are the Ravinia Park concerts. When she arrived in Chicago, last week, after traveling 4,000 miles to sing in the premiere, Mme. Rethberg suffered an unpredictable failure of voice. Since there was no understudy for her role in Verdi's Masked Ball, it was necessary to revise the entire program for the first night. Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli sang the leads in Pagliacci which was followed by Cavalleria Rusticana...
Louisville heard the roar of airplanes, the rumble of private railroad cars, and knew that Indiana's 89 realtors had arrived for the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the bitterly-fought "home town talk" contest. Hoosiers, among others, learned that the woman in the family buys the house, after considering these advantages: accessibility to golf courses, colored tile bathrooms, low window sills...