Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman team will also be on tour this weekend, facing Amherst today and Deerfield Academy tomorrow...
...Thomas Beecham, white-bearded British conductor who likes to distribute pieces of his mind, arrived in Manhattan with Lady Beecham. He was as generous as ever. Sir Thomas, 68, on Italy's eight-year-old Conductor Ferruccio Burco, who had arrived for a U.S. tour a few days before: "Who is responsible for this outrage? . . . Where are your police? The boy should be in kindergarten sucking a lollipop."* On musicians generally: "Musicians have no reason to be stuffy. I've seen an orangutan play the flute." On the state of things: "The world is drifting into barbarism...
Ansermet had been the first to interest Stravinsky and Ravel in jazz, which he had picked up on his first U.S. tour. Now he is convinced that "the days of jazz are over. It has made its contribution to music. Now in itself it is merely monotonous...
...telephone in his automobile. He needed it. As boss of six textile mills in four cities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, plump, hustling Joe Axelrod made the rounds every day, and he liked to keep in touch. Last week, Joe Axelrod added a fifth city (Providence) to his tour, a seventh plant (the Damar Wool Combing Co.) to his holdings. Even for a young man who likes to keep moving, Axelrod had moved far. In 9½ years he had parlayed $5,500 into an integrated textile empire worth $16 million...
University and Alumni penuriousness has forced the band to schedule a South American tour and several one-night concert stands to raise the necessary funds...