Word: testimoniale
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One century is nothing against the prophecy of genius. But the fact that time witnesses his ever-ascending influence is significant. Musicians set aside a week in which the whole world might applaud-not the finish but only .the prologue of the divine comedy. In 275 U. S. cities, whatever...
Although Boston may have claimed at one time or another to be the hub of shoes and ships and sealing wax, it has never--even when it boasted of an opora company--set itself up as the center of the theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in...
One Ivan Manghikian, self-styled "American shoemaker" arrived at Paris recently from Moscow with a testimonial reading as follows: "General Antremick is proud to attest that Executioner Manghikian, attached to the Russian Armies, has to my knowledge rendered justice 364 times."
They dined in jubilant cohorts, went to the theatre, to the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, to a banquet in Manhattan where they presented a testimonial scroll to North Pole Flyers Byrd and Bennet, saw French Legion of Honor crosses (Chevalier) pinned on the chests of their President, King Woodbridge, and their...
High up in a Manhattan hotel a tired, grizzly man lay sick. It was Ignace Jan Paderewski, 65 years old, exhausted after a season of 70 concerts before some 250,000 people; too tired to play again this season; too sick to attend a testimonial dinner planned for him by...