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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel on Tenor Franz's shoulder. The police, unable to arrest her, lectured her severely...
...Display. In the afternoon and all the next day the University showed off. Induction evening there was a huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor...
Officials of the museum plan to have the collection on exhibition in Gallery IX beginning tomorrow, to remain on display until December 13. There the exhibit will be open to the public...
Exhibit. Ancient is the Republican trick of bringing into the Senate Chamber during a tariff war an assortment of cheap imported articles to illustrate arguments on foreign cost, duty, selling price. In 1922 an elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella...
Watchers of the skies in the wee small hours this week may see the most important, if not the most spectacular, meteoric display of 30 years, according to Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory. The long missing Leonids, one of the most brilliant of meteor showers, should begin to be visible tomorrow night, between the hours of midnight and dawn...