Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behind a barricade of sideburns, the "pro's" and the "con's" will be alike unrecognizable, and can slip by the watchers ere the latter can penetrate their disguises. It will, of course, be a trifle hard on the general public; many an old farmer on a sight-seeing tour will be mistaken for a legislator and questioned concerning the cotton-planter's trust or the Society for the Preservation of Indigent Africans...
Count Tolstoy is at present in America on a lecture tour explaining the conditions in Russia and securing aid for the education of Russian students...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra concluded an extensive tour with a concert at the National Theatre, Washington, D. C. last week. The first of its kind ever attempted by the orchestra, the trip, according to prominent newspaper critics in the various cities, was a success...
...orchestra spent the next three days at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York, staged a dress rehearsal at Carnegie Hall on the morning of Monday, December 26, and that evening, in spite of unfavorable conditions, a large audience filled the hall for the second performance of the tour. Madame Helen Stanley, of the Chicago Opera Company, was the soloist, and gave a selection of six songs, being accompanied in "Panis Angelicus" by Clair Leonard '23 on the organ and George Brown '25 on the cello...
After a hectic tour of America, the mighty Marshal of France is safely aboard his steamer homeward bound. He returns like a Roman Emperor back from the wars, laden with trophies of every conceivable sort. His triumph beggars description. But unlike most men their duty is done, he need not fear for his future. If he wishes to set up as a lawyer, he has more than a score of LL. D. degrees, conferred by the highest universities of the land-surely no one will question his competence to serve at the bar. Or if manual labor has a stronger...