Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight. When they did come, they were the elite- Pope B. Billups, candidate for Judge; Dr. Alain Locke, professor of philosophy at Howard University; Actress Gertrude Saunders, Composer Ford Dabney and many another Harlem notable-fashionable Dr. H. Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy D. Miller, the musical comedian. Flournoy Miller's stage partner, Aubrey Lyles, was there, as one of the principal speakers. And of course there...
...speechmaking began along about the fifth or sixth course, as might have been expected; but not until nine or ten others had spoken did Aubrey Lyles arise to deliver the speech for which the evening was long to be remembered...
...introduced to the President and had a ten minutes talk. He did not impress me in the least. He told me his grandfather and grandmother both come from Ulster, but met for the first time in America. He said he had a keen sense of humor. He has not yet been for his trip around the devastated country and he is so angry with the Italians that he has given up his Italian trip. No. He did not impress me in the least. But my conversation was too short, and our subjects too general, to allow me to form...
...prizes: to the International winner, $10,000; to each of ten zone winners, $750; to each of ten zone second prize winners, $250. For further information address New York University, Department of Music, Washington Square East, New York City...
...directors of the theatre thought I was talent full," he relates, "but during the ten years of my service in Moscow Art Theatre from the period thousand nine hundred six till thousand nine hundred sixteen they gave me no one but one speaking part. All other parts were dumb...