Word: vera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...depicted forcefully the conditions of the United States at the present time in its contented attitude of settling back to grow rich and its "corporal's guards which chase from Alaska to Vera Cruz" with no definite purpose; the fleet with its individual ships in good order but lacking as "a fighting unit." All of which, he said, showed the inconsistent lack of detail. Congress did not go far enough, it was willing to do as much as its intelligence could comprehend but there it stopped...
...Courtney's "Good-bye, Vera," is a hair-raising "Crook" story, with a beautiful girl, a diamond necklace, handsome young villains, hand-to-hand struggles, and a detective flashed on the screen in rapid succession. It is melodramatic-but successfully melodramatic...
Professor Alfred M. Tozzer '00, assistant professor of Anthropology in the University, announced in a message Saturday that he and his party, who have been engaged in archaeological research in Central American countries for several months, had just left Vera Cruz for Galveston. They with other Americans were in the Diligencia Hotel, Vera Cruz, when the American marines seized the custom house, and during the fighting that followed, much of it in and about the hotel, the entire party of Americans escaped harm...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give a concert in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. Miss Vera Barstow will be the soloist. The program will be: MacDowell, Suite in E minor, No. 2 "Indian": Strauss, Tone Poem. "Don Juan", opus 20: Saint-Saens, Concerto in B minor. No. 3. for violin: Berliez, Three Pieces from "The Damnation of Faust...
Several changes have been made in the personnel of the orchestra since last season. The assisting solo artists will be Miss Florence Hinckle, soprano; Mr. Leopold Godowsky, pianist; Miss Elena Gerhardt, soprano; Miss Gertrude Marshall, violinist; Mrs. Truman Aldrich, pianist; Mr. Norman Wilks, pianist; Miss Vera Barstow, violinist...