Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anent Editor High's "tour de force in hailing Bishop Cannon as "the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928,"I would appreciate more light on the worthy editor's conception of religion, his definition of progress, and finally on how he can see "religious progress" in Bishop Cannon's conduct in the last campaign. To my mind the bishop's conduct was a sign of the "bankruptcy of protestantism" rather than one of "religious prog-ress...
...amateur again. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, under the friendly presidency of Samuel H. Collom of Philadelphia, voted last week in Boston to remove the bar sinister of professionalism it voted six months ago when Tilden wrote in U. S. newspapers about the matches at Wimbledon, a -tour-nament in which he was playing. The bar was removed once before, to allow Tilden to play in the 1928 Davis Cup matches...
...Harvard Glee Club will go to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, returning through the larger cities of New York State, on its annual spring tour, it was announced, last night by officials of the Glee Club...
Nineteen cities besides Chicago will hear the Chicago Civic Opera Company this year.* That will mean 59 performances on a tour of 8,977 miles and, according to custom, last week Boston was first. Lohengrin was the opening opera there, with Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan, as the wispy Elsa who could not cure her curiosity, Rene Maison the Silver Knight and Maria Olszewska the black-hearted Ortrud. Other operas came from a standardized repertoire, all save Honegger's Judith which retells starkly in music and text the apochryphal legend of the Hebrew prophetess saving her people against...
...take another author's (Louis Hemon's) locale and into it blend a tale of similar genre is a literary tour de force which James Oliver Curwood accomplished not long before his death (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). It is written simply, directly, with just enough characterization and scene to suggest verity...