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Great was the suspense in a Manhattan concert hall last week. After each burst of applause an expectant silence fell in the audience. Many thought, particularly after the sweeping finale of the Liszt Preludes, that Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left...
...Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other Samoans lay dying in the dusty road. In revenge for the death of Constable Abraham came the peremptory arrest of 20 Samoan Chiefs, the ordering of the cruiser Dunedin to Apia, and Prime Minister Ward's threat of a still "firmer...
According to witnesses who arrived at the conflagration soon after its inception, the first flames burst through the roof in the central part of the building a few minutes after midnight. By 12.30 o'clock, as fresh contingents of firefighters arrived from various Boston, Allston, and Cambridge stations, the flames had already soared to a height at least twice that of the building, coloring the murky, rainladen sky with a deep crimson hue, visible for miles around...
Dresser, "as everyone knows," is the author of "On the Banks of the Wabash," immortal theme song of Hoosierdom, and likely to burst forth wherever two or more loyal souls are gathered together in the faith...
Quite vanquished him; then burst his heart...