Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of London and is now for the second time a British Cabinet Minister, fidgeted nervously between his sponsors, Lord Parmoor and Lord Ashfield, who introduced him to the assembled Peers. After his sponsors he quickly mumbled the Peers' oath into his beard, was glad to start back to his seat. His nervousness was so contagious that all three Lords got lost among the benches, had to be rescued by the colorful Garter King of Arms, who looks like the Jack of Hearts...
...Poughkeepsie, N. Y., nine varsity crews set themselves on the broad, current-ribbed Hudson for the biggest crew pageant of the year, the Intercollegiate. Before the start it seemed as if the winner would be either California, coached by bespectacled Carroll "Ky" Ebright, stroked by huge Pete Donlan and considered this year's greatest Western crew, or unbeaten Columbia, coached by Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late...
...start at Old Orchard was June 13, a fair day with western winds all the way across the Atlantic. On the long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...
Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld Jr. let it be known last week that he and Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn had formed the Ziegfeld-Goldwyn Corp., which would start next January to produce "talkies" with the Ziegfeld tang and glamor, the Goldwyn experience. Said Mr. Ziegfeld: "I am going to do for the screen what I have done for the stage." Of the stage he said: "There is too much dirt and nakedness in revues nowadays, and the public is about fed up on them. . . . The sketches now used as black-outs? are the sort that in pre-Prohibition days found their origin...
...last Chicago's World Fair (1893) the first convention of women's music clubs was assembled through the efforts of Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the conductor. Four years later, inspired by this start, six women met in New York City, laid the foundation of the now national Federation of Music Clubs. In Boston last week this Federation held its 16th biennial convention with 3,000 delegates representing clubs in every State and also Alaska, Hawaii. Programs featured all branches of musical activity, every musical phase of civic, social, home, school, church life. Practical assistance...