Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headquarters in the suburbs of Marianao, looked dubiously at their tar-paper mansions. And in the middle of Havana the lean eagle erected to the memory of 260 Americans who went down with the battleship Maine, Feb. 15, 1898, seemed to come alive and with a darkness in each wing to invoke the fall of unforgotten furies. The storm was coming. Next instant, quick as a door slamming, the storm had come...
There will be a new solo danseuse?Ruth Page, of Indianapolis, member once of Anna Pavlowa's company, and hitherto notable for her dancing in John Alden Carpenter's Birthday of the Infanta with the Chicago Opera; most important, a new conductor to strengthen further the Italian wing ?Vincenzo Bellezza, Roman, to make his Metropolitan debut with The Jewels of the Madonna during the season's first week...
...building will be of brick, and in the form of a letter H, allowing for future expansion. It will occupy the large plot of ground north of the College Green. The main structure, capped by a great tower, reminiscent of Independence Hall, will face the campus, while the west wing will look towards the Vermont Hills and end the broad mall extending to the Connecticut river...
...University lineup, two changes have been made since the Andover match, last Saturday. L. L. Driggs '28 has been shifted from the left to the right end of the forward line, and R. T. Smith '27 and F. W. Rhinelander '29 are competing for the other wing position. Substitutes who will probably see service before the end of the afternoon are M. K. Exton '27 at an inside forward berth, and A. R. Blackburn '29 as a halfback...
...Philadelphia. A great crowd flocked to the Academy of Music one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer...