Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last 300 years,. Japan's professional wrestlers have been divided into two groups-East and West. Most of the year, Easts and Wests tour the country giving exhibitions, developing young sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo...
...high spot in any music season is a song recital by Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who makes a program glow with her abundance of feeling, her richness of voice. After a memorable Manhattan concert Mme Lehmann began a tour last week which will take her to the Pacific Coast. Coincidentally, an album of phonograph records was issued to represent a complete Lehmann recital with songs by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Hugo Wolf.* Collectors pounced on it because, mechanically, it was outstanding; vocally, Lehmann was at her best, an eloquent interpreter of a dozen different moods...
Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, has made a through study of the urgent situation now confronting the Congress of the United States. Author of a series of articles on the question in the New Republic called "They Cry Peace, Peace," Mr. Bliven has just completed a tour of the country in an effort to determine the sentiment of the people...
While on a comprehensive tour of Memorial Hall under the guidance of the Vagabond, we noted the other day the twin of the John Harvard statue in the Yard. This second Mr. Harvard is coarse-featured and without the refinement of his Yard counterpart...
...after last week's birthday party Mr. Crocker retired to his bank's chairmanship and his older son was named to succeed him as president. William Willard ("Willie") Crocker became a vice president in 1919 after a year's training tour through Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Like his father, he went to Yale (Class of 1915), earned a crew Y, a Phi Beta Kappa key, a tap on the back from Scroll & Keys. After a turn at the Harvard Law School, he drove an ambulance in France, attended a French artillery school, transferred...