Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opening of 45-day winter season of the Miami Jockey Club at Hialeah track, at Miami...
...First game of the Intercollegiate League season. Yale v. Pennsylvania at Philadelphia...
...Last week it was stamped by most listeners as pleasant, old-fashioned stuff significant only because it gives a hundred hints of the later, greater Verdi. Distinguishing feature of the performance: the sumptuous singing of Soprano Rosa Ponselle, prevented by a severe throat affection from appearing earlier in the season...
...study singing, went to Manhattan, thence to Europe. At a party in Paris Hallie Stiles had what she calls her "great luck." The director of the Opera Comique was present and she was asked to sing for him. So impressed was he that he engaged her for the following season to sing Mimi in La Boheme. When that time came she had used all her money; her cook had been buying the food out of her own savings. Even the day after her great success, Singer Stiles had to ask the cook for an additional two francs...
...reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin (southeast of Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska) where it will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr...