Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before President Harding went on his fateful trip to Alaska he asked Attorney General Daugherty to prepare an opinion on whether it would be legal to use the Navy to enforce the Volstead Act. Mr. Daugherty last week completed the opinion and gave it to President Coolidge. Its substance was that it would be illegal to employ naval forces...
Christmas Trip Extensive...
...Christmas trip will start on December 22 and end on January 2. Concerts will be given in New York on December 22, in Chicago on December 26, in St. Louis on December 27, in Cincinnatti on December 28, and in Springfield, Ohio, on December 29. There are three more dates on the trip which have yet to be filled. The remaining engagements are at Wellesley on February 28, at the Intercollegiates in New York on March 1, and at Smith on April 26. In addition to these trips the club in connection with the Boston Symphony Orchestra will render Beethoven...
Chauve Souris. With the rest of fashionable America, Nitka Balieff and his Kussian troupe departed last Spring for a Parisian Summer. There they entertained Americans homesick for Broadway, Russians wearying for Petrograd, French wearying of their tawdry native entertainments. In the course of the trip Balieff forgot a bit more of his Russian, his English improved, his comedy became a trifle more intelligible...
...preceded Senators Ladd and King along the road of Russian dupes when she expressed a desire to see her new conquest in southern Russia. Prince Potemkin, her Premier, who had misappropriated all the funds Catherine gave him for the development of southern Russia, took the Empress on a long trip through the country, showing her model villages and happy, singing populations. While the Empress was resting at chateaux along the road. Prince Potemkin had the villages moved so she was surrounded with a vision of prosperity. When the Tsarina discovered the fraud, years later, she jailed Prince Potemkin, afterwards executing...