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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, while in the U. S. anxious men and women kept a nerve-straining vigil at Sand Cave where Floyd Collins was buried alive, and a horrified nation clung bravely to hope, crowds of weeping German women and children surrounded the Stein pithead, breaking police cordons in their desperate grief, while a whole nation poured out its sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fire-damp | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...following program will be given: Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Gluck Unfinished Symphony in B minor Shubert Recitative and aria, "Eri tu cha macciavi" Werdi Song of the Sandman and Prayer from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck Jaernefelt Berceuse Two Sentimental Tangos (for dancing) Vigil Thompson '22 "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly" Purcell "Wie bist du meine Koenigen" Brahms Cartner "Love is Mine" (C. T. Leonard '23, accompanist.) Prelude to second act of "Louise" Charpantier Overture to "Oberon" Weber Tickets for the concert may be procured at the Cooperative Society, Herrick's, and the Copley Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY GIVES SEASON'S FIRST CONCERT | 12/3/1924 | See Source »

William E. Borah, Wesley L. Jones, Hendrik Shipstead, Thomas F. Bayard, Thaddeus H. Caraway?these five constitute the all-Senatorial group of vigilant keepers-of-their-brothers'-purses. In accordance with a resolution which Senator LaFollette carried through the Senate in the closing hours of Congress, they were chosen a committee to scrutinize the political expenditures and receipts of all parties, candidates and organizations. Last week they began their vigil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Scrutinizers | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...Keeps vigil off our coast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor Curley's Assistant Mourns for Old Days--Sends Doggerel to Crimson as "Latest if Not the Last" Sigh | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...Renaissance amphitheatre on a stage similar to the Elizabethan. It begins early on Sunday morning after the players have attended High Mass. It lasts eight hours. The first part (Act I to Act VII) carries the story of Christ's last week from His entry into Jerusalem to His vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane where He prayed: "Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but Thine, be done." After an interval for lunch, the second part (Act VIII to Act XIV) continues to the Condemnation under Pilate. The last part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Christus, Petrus, Judas From Ober-Ammergau They Come with Carving, Pottery, Paintings | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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