Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whiteman added that the consistent success that his band met with throughout its European tour convinced him that American jazz is a language that everyone understands and feels. Going into Spain. Italy, Switzerland, countries in which they were unknown, he said they received hearty applause...
...reel will also be shown of a tour on skils of Mont Rosa, the highest mount in Switzerland. The performance takes place in the Living Room of the Union on Sunday night and will begin at 7.30 o'clock. It is under the joint auspices of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Union and is open to all members of both organizations...
...London, transferring in mid-ocean from the frail destroyer Durban to a swift and sturdier liner. Only the Duke of York, second son of His Majesty, was at the Royal bedside. The Duke of Gloucester and Edward of Wales-imminent King and Emperor-were on their "good will tour" (TIME. Sept. 17) of British Africa. Probably because of the vast distance between them and London (7,000 miles by boat and train), they were not recalled even when His Majesty's temperature began to rise...
Many an imperial legend clusters about her name. One is traced to American-girl-glorifier Ziegfeld. Then managing strong man Sandow's tour, he boldly invited Mrs. Palmer to the dressing-room. Pantie-clad, Sandow's bulging thews, barrel chest, excited her admiration. "What marvelous muscles!" Sandow tautened his biceps. "Feel them," he said. Mrs. Palmer did. Precedent was established. Thenceforward, claims Ziegfeld, thirty women appeared after each performance, prodded and pinched the chuckling Sandow...
First Straw. As everyone knows, cane sugar producers in Louisiana must fight diseases, blights. Untiringly, U. S. government experts have sought hardier, sturdier varieties of cane. And last week the Department of Agriculture announced results of an 11,100-mile tour of exploration through Papua and New Guinea, by air plane, canoe, foot. Explorer E. W. Brandes had discovered 167 varieties of sugar cane...