Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time this season Captain Duane played match singles yesterday afternoon in the University's 7-2 defeat of Pennsylvania. Because of doctor's orders Duane has played only in the doubles matches since his trip abroad last summer on the Harvard-Yale tennis tour of England, but yesterday he entered as number two man and defeated his opponent, Norvell...
...operas in Havana, earns a net profit, much to the comfort and happiness of its very able impresario, Fortune Gallo. The Wagnerian Festival Company, which had a rather precarious career this season, achieved a handsome deficit. The Russian Opera Company, which arrives in New York after a long road tour, has been no financial godsend to its manager, S. Hurok. Any study of operatic finances makes it the more extraordinary that the Metropolitan company, whose policy is not to make profits but to avoid deficits, stands today the world's first operatic institution and earns a considerable surplus...
...course of his semi-continuous lecture tour brought Glenn Frank, active editor of the Century maga- zine, to New Orleans. Abandoning the general for the particular, Mr. Frank said he wanted Mr. William G. McAdoo to be our next President. " I know by personal observation and research that Mr. McAdoo is well qualified...
...William B. Kahn (operatic name, Frieda Hempel): " On returning to Manhattan from a concert tour I discovered that thieves had ransacked my apartment. They took my $15,000 chinchilla coat, all my initialed lingerie and all the flat silver. In addition they smoked many of Mr. Kahn's best cigars-but they missed 200 bottles of old wine...
Lord Robert Cecil: "The private car, Mayflower, in which I tour the country, has carried Foch, the Prince of Wales and every President since McKinley...