Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan where she used to teach. Last week she received an LL.D. from Washington (D. C.) College of Law and gave counsel to its graduating class: "The greatest thing that life does is to give you experience and knowledge of other people." Kudos of the fortnight: Baylor University (Waco. Tex...
...John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard music in the department stores. When they walked in Powderhorn Park they heard community singing for which an all-banjo orchestra plunked vigorous accompaniments...
Last week at Big Spring, Tex., one of the springiest men in oil performed another of his remarkable saltations. With his first spring 23 years ago Joshua S. Cosden leaped out of a drugstore in Baltimore and landed in the boots of 50-million-dollar oilman in Tulsa. His second spring took him from the boots of Tulsa nouveau riche and landed him in the patent leather pumps of one of Manhattan's 400; with a $600,000 string of pearls for his wife (the second Mrs. Cosden by that time), with a million-dollar estate on Long Island...
...quickly reported by the Associated Press when he landed at Kansas City: "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed. The meteor appeared out of the northeast, traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. m. Mountain Time, and I was over Adrian, Tex., 45 miles west of Amarillo...
...Stratford, Tex., Farmer Ed Hart found a 4-lb. metallic mass which seemed a fragment of the meteor. The material was cold and not embedded in the soil. But green wheat and grass around the lump were scorched...