Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breathless minutes passed while the tellers counted. Two hundred fifty-six against Tardieu, but 327 for him?"Vive le Dauphin!" "Vive le Roi!" "Vive VAmericain...
...step from his journalistic juniority. New York City's policemen and firemen had won a pay-raise from the voters. The Hearstpapers had vigorously helped. In expressing thanks, the city's servants addressed not only the newspapers and their owner but also William Randolph Hearst Jr., who six months ago succeeded son George as President of the New York American...
...zealously guarded the operas entrusted to it by the late Composer Giacomo Puccini. Feeling that radio was unqualified to do them artistic justice, the Ricordis have kept the Puccini operas off the air. Last week, however, the ban was lifted and beginning Saturday evening. Nov. 16, a series of six condensed versions will go on the U. S. air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December...
...late 20's. Then he went to Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), found its Calvinism too narrow, looked for broader horizons. In 1904 he was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. He had parishes at Morristown and Englewood, N. J., went to the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan in 1911. Six years later he was elected Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...six or seven minutes of newsreel exhibited in ordinary program houses are selected from many reels of current events. Nowhere could one be sure of seeing all the newsreels made in any one week. In Manhattan William Fox, in collaboration with Hearst Metrotone, found what to do with the newsreels discarded weekly by their companies. He took over a Broadway theatre (Embassy) and changed its program from a $2 show twice a day to a continuous 25? show. He made the program all newsreels, to run for an hour, a full photographic report of the pictorial parts of the week...