Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Members of Parliament perform in public as entertainingly as nimble-witted James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment. Parliament's best contract bridge player, the Rt. Hon. Lord Privy Seal is also a notable after-dinner speaker, with a fund of Rabelaisian anecdote that is the envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time...
...place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest of the world...
...Pierian Sodality is the only organization in the University which offers the opportunity to practice and perform good orchestral music under a trained conductor and at the same time to have the advantages presented by an organized society of the University...
After the initial effort, which the oyster must perform unaided, General Foods Corp. can do much to aid the progress of the baby mollusc from the sea to the dinner tables of U. S. oyster-lovers. Old shells and brush, to which oysters happily cling, can be strewn upon the breeding-beds. Twice must the oysters be trans planted: first to a growing bed in deeper water, where they will not be buried under new spawn, then to a finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months...
Albert of Belgium went to Italy. Purpose: to visit Vittorio-Emanuele and Queen Elena. Rumored: that Princess Marie-Jose of Belgium (third child) and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy (just turned 25) are to be married; that Pius XI will perform the ceremony; that the couple will live in a royal palace at Florence...