Word: vestale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that on the one hand make the U.S. appear uncivilized, and on the other deny to U.S. artists legislative benefits of a kind long enjoyed by manufacturers-were to be remedied by the passage of a new bill, containing an automatic, blanket copyright feature, framed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of that most profusely literary state, Indiana. Also in Washington to boost this bill were Novelist Will Irwin, Songwriter Gene (Follies) Buck, Laborite Matthew Woll, Hearstling Karl Kirchwey...
...flew from his home to Philadelphia. He took his time, stopping twice en route, arriving in 18 hours. His mother, an accomplished aviatrix, was following him by train. He was more or less waiting for her. Then Farnan proceeded to Washington and sought out his Congressman, Representative Albert H. Vestal. The latter introduced him to the House, which applauded. Platis were arranged for Farnan to appear before the House Mili tary Committee, now investigating the national aircraft situation and give his testimony on what youth can, does and should do in the air. A licensed pilot since...
...Manhattan. Rosa Ponselle, in the white draperies of a vestal virgin, was fervently wooed by Edward Johnson, U. S. tenor, disguised as a Roman soldier in the Metropolitan's revival of La Vestale, a totally unoriginal opera written 100 years ago by Gasparo Spontini. Critics agree that this composer understood one thing- how to write for the voice. For the rest he depended on Gluck and what he could remember of Mozart. Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular...
...issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland, is formed under Phaon's governance; and here, while the maidens of lie des Dames grow up in an atmosphere of chaste fertility, vestal visions (including a unicorn) and athletic womanhood, the boys become men, taming beasts, hewing forests, building halls and palaces, fortresses and boats...
SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE OPERATIONS OF ARMY AIR SERVICE, NAVAL BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS AND MAIL SERVICE- Representatives Lambert (Chairman), Vestal, Perkins, Faust, Reid, Lea, O'Sullivan, Prall, Rogers...