Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Newton D. Baker, 54, West Virginian by birth, educated at Johns Hopkins, was City Solicitor and Mayor of Cleveland through a stirring municipal upheaval and Secretary of War during the Great War. He is short of stature,slim, dark, shell-spectacled. His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Saturday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes...
...happy to welcome home my son, the Prince of Wales, on his recent return from his visit to South Africa, West Africa and South America. I have been deeply touched by the account he gave to me of the warm welcome everywhere accorded him, and I am proud to think that his visit served to deepen the affection which has united my people and to strengthen the bonds which link this country with the peoples of South America...
...performance there was an historic riot. Composer Harling was mobbed in the lobby. Journalists asserted that at least 200 men kissed and hugged him?for him, ex-director of music at West Point, a new sensation...
...Francisco the "All-Western Eleven," made up of star players from Leland Stanford, the University of California, Oregon Agricultural College, etc., defeated 6 to 0 the "All-Eastern Eleven," whose players hailed from West Point, the University of Michigan, Florida State, Pittsburgh, Drake, Iowa, Georgia Tech, etc. The proceeds of the fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic...
This selection of the corporation was "The Lamp in the West", by Hoatio Parker, formerly Professor of Music at Yale. The opinions previously expressed by Harvard music leaders, who had said that they objected to having "sentimental much" on the pogam of the competition, was said to have been completely disegarded...