Word: tonight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conn., June 11--Taking to the waters of the Thames at 9 o'clock tonight for a time trial, the Harvard University shell-rowed over the four mile course in 22 minutes and 21 seconds...
Fifteen minutes before the first Harvard boat started upstream on its trial, the Yale crew was sent over the same course for a speed test. No time for this run was taken in the Crimson camp. The performance of the Harvard eight tonight differed only a few seconds from the previous test, but is considerably slower than the 20 minute 43 second clocking of the Leader combination...
...Rosa Ponselle, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, waited in a dressing room of London Covent Garden last week. She tapped her foot, tried her voice, added a touch of carmine to her cheeks, adjusted the green wreath on her flowing black hair. Tomorrow her British debut would be over. Tonight she must face the coldest public in the world, a public which had not heard Norma since the late great Lilli Lehmann sang it in London 30 years before, Lehmann who had said: "I would rather sing all three Brünnhildes than Norma...
Sirs: I like you fine! Every Saturday night I sit up till 12 o'clock to read you through. Tonight I am pausing at page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that...
...Smith: "You bet it did. If some of the others took them as well, maybe it wouldn't have been possible for me to be here tonight...