Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera unfamiliar to Americans was presented by Louis Eckstein's Chicago summer-company at Ravinia Park, Ill. It is in one act, consumes only 40 minutes' time, was composed by M. Félix Fourdrain, and was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, in 1907. It is called La Légende du Point D'Argentan. The story. The hamlet of Argentan has been famous for its point-lace, of which the secret design has been lost. For this design, the local seigneur, wishing to present a magnificent robe to the Queen of France...
...escorted down the Strand to the Inner Temple, where guarded doors swung open upon Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn and all that is sedate and venerable in the Law. Cases were in progress. Little knots of men grouped about the English hosts, listening to elucidations of unfamiliar procedure. Bewigged, begowned, Lord Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Gordon Hewart) and Justice Darling ruled their benches in the Courts of Appeal, Justice Horridge his divorce court. In one ;room, there arose an intricate question involving U. S. law. Experts among the visitors were pressed into willing service...
...Boston, high ranking tennis exponents competed for the Longwood Bowl, a trophy never won by second raters. Play finished, an engraver was instructed to carve, in close proximity to "W. M. Johnston," "W. T. Tilden II.," "R. N. Williams," the unfamiliar name of Fritz Mercur, of Philadelphia, undergraduate of Lehigh University. Twelve years ago the Longwood spectators blinked at the dazzling play of a tall young Californian, until then unheralded, unsung. The engraver's instructions that summer were "Maurice Mc-Laughlin...
...unfamiliar are the Gauls, seeing the much-laden tenders labor shoreward, with hearing a mighty shout go up to Heaven, with hearing an answering roar from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, with seeing some 300 picked American athletes spring ashore to the blaring strains of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...view of the former popularity and success of lacrosse at Harvard, this development is surprising. Everyone, does not remember that the University won six times and shared twice, the Championship of the Intercollegiate League in the eleven years preceding 1916--although the recent lack of complete success is not unfamiliar. But apparently, lacrosse has achieved a gruesome and quite undeserved reputation for savage ferocity, and even the boldest spirits are dismayed by the prospect. The result has been small squads and necessarily, less keen competition for the positions and less material from which to draw...