Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Privy Council at which he has presided since his convalescence began (TIME, Feb. 4). Later he gave private audience to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, heard all about the Naval Disarmament plans of "a dear old Quaker" (see p. 26). Next morning, still unwearied, the King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister of the Crown...
Harvard's string of capable substitutes, the men, who, according to Coach Bachman of Florida, beat the Alligators, may also decide today conflict. Harvard's reserve ends, Harding and Ogden rank with the best, while Kuchn and Myerson take little away from the efficiency of the first line when they are in there. Mention has already been made of the backfield reserves
...Harvard University soccer team will meet Brown today at 12 o'clock on the field behind the Business School in the last contest of its preliminary season. Today the eleven will attempt to break the string of indecisive or losing games which has dogged the team since the Northeastern victory. The team was tied by M. I. T. and the Navy, both 1 to 1, and lost to Amherst, 4 to 2, and to Pennsylvania...
Coming out of the green mist that has enveloped her in numerous Erin and Great Western roles, Colleen Moore emerges this week at the Met as a really first string triple threat talkie star. Without any doubt "Footlights And Fools", a sea of comedy with cross currents of dramatic interest is Miss Moore's best piece of work. Incidentaly, it probably will bring her new admirers from the ranks of those who have been frankly cold to her smiling Irish eyes...
...week, at the Metropolitan's second performance, inevitably Die Meistersinger, Conductor Rosenstock made his debut. His appearance bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped...