Word: mandalay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus by all the 4,000 and most of the audience...
...Tibbett, native Californian, from Bakersfield (oil) hard by the Hoover ranch at San Joaquin (Sun Maid Raisins). Special mark of special interest: Singer Tibbett was invited to sing on Sunday at the White House. Two of Mr. Hoover's favorite songs are Ridi Pagliacci and The Road to Mandalay...
During the first 15 years of her married life, Mrs. Hoover, herself an able geologist, accompanied her husband to China, to Mandalay, to St. Petersburg, to the Alps, except when the exigencies of motherhood (two sons) prevented. Hoover offices girdled the globe, above and below the equator. Hoover homes followed them, but, according to Biographer Irwin, 1907 was the only year prior to 1914 in which the Hoovers did not spend some time at their California base...
...Ramsey Macdonald's "Reduction of Armaments-1924"; P.J. Booe '28, Victor Hugo's "The Death Penalty"; A.F. Reel; F. I. Kosen '29, Auslander's "Steel"; A.F. Reel '28, George F. Hoar's, "On Retaining the Philippine Islands"; H.M. Neuberge '27, Rudyard Kip;ing's "On the Road to Mandalay"; Eduardo Andrade '28, Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"; L. Kosol '27, Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe"; and H.A. Wolff '29 "Not Guilty", anonymous...
...Road to Mandalay (Lon Chaney). Good old-fashioned explosives cannot be downed. If you take an evil man and bring him upon his daughter on the point of going bad herself there is bound to be drama. Set this story in a Singapore dive, with yellow and brown wickedness all around and the atmosphere is perfect. Particularly when Lon Chaney plays the bad man with an unsightly cataract on one eye. You may not believe but you cannot resist...