Word: thithering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beach (pop. 225,000) spends $86,210 a year on its municipal band. In the sparkling California summer, when the band's 33 members move out of the Municipal Auditorium and strike up Hawaiian Medley or Gems from the Bohemian Girl in the seaside bandstand, Long Beachers walk thither with springy steps, feeling that their money has been well spent. Last week an audience of 5,000 swarmed on the sand to hear the opening concert of the summer season...
...visited Washington (still rebuilding after the British burned it in 1814), was bewildered by the sight of a capital built by plan. "[It] is unlike any other that ever was seen," she wrote, "straggling out hither and thither, with a small house or two a quarter of a mile from any other; so that in making calls 'in the city' we had to cross ditches and stiles. ... I was taken by surprise at finding myself beneath the splendid [Capitol], so sordid are the enclosures and houses. . . ." Washington, she decided, "is a grand mistake." She believed the capital...
...other end of the rue de la Huchette stood the Hotel du Caveau. Thither Suzanne steered Author Paul. After losing Suzanne, Author Paul sat down at a table awash with Dubonnet. "There," he says, "I found Paris-and France...
...jailbird himself, Homer Price was superintendent of the Pen's machine shop. Thither last spring went a representative of Pump Engineering with the offer of a $30,000 subcontract. Homer Price agreed, took a leave of absence, borrowed $3,000, began converting his hillside home into a machine shop. Since precision machinery for aircraft parts was nowhere to be found, he made...
Fisk's beginning, soon after the Civil War, was in a Federal hospital barracks in Nashville, Tenn. Thither, at the invitation of General Clinton Fisk, trooped Negroes of all ages, to get their schooling. They didn't get much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall...