Word: edmonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Baron Edmond de Rothschild (86); Raymond Poincare (71); Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming (62); Orville Wright (60); American Red Cross (50); Princess Margaret Rose of Great Britain...
...editor ef the New York Times, Editor Edmond William Nicholls of Bookseller & Collector wrote about dial telephones as follows: "The telephone authorities have presented us with an excellent plaything and aid to memory. ... If I want to call a number such as MUrray Hill 4-9867, I have not to memorize it. I just dial 'Mugwump' and it comes at once. Ravenswood 8-7243 Is 'Sausage.' Columbus 5-0639 is too much to carry in the mind at one time, so I dial 'Boloney' and get it swiftly. . . . My only regret is I cannot do anything better than 'Plesido' with...
April 21?Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex; at Manhattan. Production jointly by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra Association. Scenic designs by Robert Edmond Jones. Radio by National Broadcasting system...
April 10-13-Production of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, jointly by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra Association; at Philadelphia. Direction: Leopold Stokowski. Scenic designs: Robert Edmond Jones. Chorus: Princeton University. April 21-Oedipus Rex in Manhattan. Direction by Stokowski; chorus from Harvard. April 23-25-Festival of chamber music; at Washington, D. C. Sponsor: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. April 27-Opening of London opera season; at Covent Garden...
...Whence came it, this meteorite? From Paris. ... Its aim? To do a series of 24 portraits in lithograph. . . . He was 21 years old. He wore spectacles that flashed more than any pair ever seen. He was a wit. He was brimful of ideas. He knew Whistler. He knew Edmond de Goncourt. He knew everyone in Paris. He knew them all by heart. He was Paris in Oxford...