Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William, last winter an observant visitor to the U.S., is wrong. The U.S. doctor does not write freely to the newspapers. And reputable newspapers often complain that it is not easy to get information from U.S. doctors...
Miss Archbold, who was presented to society last winter at a dance attended by John Coolidge, son of the President, is a granddaughter of onetime President John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company who once shared profits with John D. Rockefeller...
Roman music lovers saw in a sudden rapid shifting of Italian orchestra directors the coordinating influence of Mussolini from whose dictation not even Italian artists are exempt. Arturo Toscanini, for years illustriously inseparable from La Scala in Milan, will reputedly conduct this winter at Costanza Opera in Rome. At La Scala it is whispered that the baton of Bernardino Molinari will flicker. Neapolitans, devotees of the famed San Carlos Opera will hail as their chief conductor, this winter, Tullio Serafin, long a brilliant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. Pietro Mascagni will go to the Augustep, chief concert hall...
...lolled the War away in a Brooklyn shipyard, Tunney sprang to arms, arrived early in France, stayed late. He gave lessons, exhibition bouts, in various training camps, but was demobilized underweight, with brittle hands. His manager sent him to the Maine woods where he hauled and hewed for a winter and acquired a new jauntiness which he employed effectively against Carpentier and Tom Gibbons. The men he had beaten before that were second raters: Herbert Crowely, Martin Burke, Wolfe Larson, Jack Ambrose, Eddie O'Hara, Whitey Meuzel, Fay Reiser. He did very well against them, this mild marine...
...Most motor car makers last week displayed with great confidence their 1927 models for the past week. Others will follow in quick succession, until the winter automobile shows bring them together for comparison. Retail sales have already picked up. In the first six months of the year, automotive sales-cars, trucks-aggregated the amazing total...