Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were bills to be signed-$6,792,000 for Army Housing, $125,000,000 for new Federal buildings throughout the land. People were already agitating about the next "Summer White House" and suggesting places as exotic as Hollywood, Calif., despite the President's known feeling that he should stay near Washington this summer. There was also the Jardines' dinner, which President Coolidge had to attend alone, Mrs. Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold, to go out of doors until three days later. There was a holiday trip to Alexandria, Va., to celebrate Washington's Birthday...
When the American Opera Company, formed last spring to present opera in the language of its audience and to give operatic performances at prices within the means of the average theatre-goer, comes to the Hollis Street Theatre on March 12 for a two weeks' stay, it will offer the first opportunity for a Boston audience to hear purely American singers in English...
...American Opera Company will open its stay in Boston by presenting Gounod's "Faust" in English on Monday evening. "Faust" will be followed by Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" on Tuesday and Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" on Wednesday. Tickets for the performances may be obtained at Steinert Hall on Boylston St. The prices of seats will range from...
Figures are quoted con and hopes are advanced pro on the barnacle-bottomed question of whether or not the Government should stay in the shipping business and continue in that (so far) ineffective way to try to build up the U. S. merchant marine. Last week the question remained as derelict as ever, but the U. S. Shipping Board took a definite step which apparently vexed no one very much. It sold the U. S. entirely out of the shipping business on the Pacific Coast...
...Pillionnel, instructor in the French Department, is soon to issue a volume of poetry entitled "Poemes D'Amerique", which is based on his ten year's stay in this country. The volume will contain a variety of short spontaneous lyrics, and a long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...