Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaving Boston on Saturday night, December 25, the University Instrumental Clubs will start its Christmas concert tour. Stopping at eight cities in the south and north-west, the members will be entertained at dances, and full privileges have been extended them by clubs in the various cities. The program includes a concert for every night during the eight day trip. Special features, including trick dancing acts, piano specialities, and singing will be given...
...quite sure of their ground. The eyes of H. R. H. gleamed impishly: he raised the gassoon to his lips again, expanded his cheeks and commenced to play another tune. ... It was one which had been sung to the Prince half a dozen times a day during the whole tour. It was 'God Bless the Prince of Wales...
...MOTHER DEAR" : THE EMPRESS MARIE OP RUSSIA AND HER TIMES-V. Poliakov ("Au-srur")-Appleton ($3.50). ²H. R. H.-Major F. E. Verney-Doran ($3.50). ¼³THE TOUR OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA-Ralph Deakin -Lippincott ($4.00). *His full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar...
...discovered so; commanded separation on grounds of social prestige. Consuelo demurred. Her mother threatened to shoot Mr. Rutherfurd, and go herself to the gallows; invited the young Duke of Marlborough to her home at Newport, where for two weeks he saw Consuelo. The Duke, departing for a U. S. tour, asked Consuelo's hand. Consuelo demurred. The day after his departure, Mrs. Belmont announced his engagement to her daughter. A few weeks later, the Duke returned, a few days later was married. Twenty days later, testified the Duke, his bride told him her part in the foregoing details...
...Alan's reception was no whit cooler, for all that. Encouraged by Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous...