Word: born
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Born. To President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, a granddaughter; the first child of his third daughter Ernestina, and Thomas Arnold Robinson, Manhattan Businessman...
...category was young Greville. Vacationing from arduous if undefined politico-humanitarian labors, he offered Octavia stimulating relief from the world of hounds and their masters. Relief developed quickly into greater emotion, and they were shortly whisked off on the conventional Riviera wedding trip. That Octavia detested the still-born placidity of the Riviera made more difficult the time-honored difficulties of early married adjustment. But, back in England, the understanding professor assists her with literary quotations to live with her husband happily ever afterward...
...Author. Emma Alice Margaret Tennant was one of twelve children, born and bred on just such a Scottish estate as Dunross, and Laura, her favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...
...little house in Nussdorfer Street, where Franz Schubert was born 131 years ago, there was singing. Pictures of the composer were in windows and on walls all through the city. The Schubert exhibition attracted thousands of persons eager to see the manuscripts of his chamber music, the pens with which he had scribbled copybooks or concertos, the clothes he had worn, his spectacles. The city of Vienna celebrated Beethoven's anniversary last year; for Schubert its populace has an even more friendly adoration. There will be concerts there all summer in his honor and most of the houses will...
Ildebrando Pizzetti was born in Parma and he has honored it before this in, for example, his Ildebrando da Parma. He studied at the Conservatory of Parma for six years, specializing in the model qualities of Greek and Gregorian music. Since 1918, he has directed the Florence Conservatory. In Florence he lives now in almost ratlike retirement. His wife, a descendant of Stradivarius, is dead. He likes quiet and hates traveling; he was made sorrowful before the War when his enemies, on account of his "revolutionary" music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous...