Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should play a tall harp is telling a deep epic. The Author's scholarship, of which he needed and exercised much in this book, comes from the old universities at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig. His way with words and occupation with matters spiritual are natural to a North-Irelander, born though he was in Manhattan. His last book, a novel for Irishmen called Hangman's House, sold tremendously to U. S. people of all extractions. Brother Saul, a Christian epos, is aimed at men of all faiths
George Antheil, U. S. born, European-educated, presented for the first time in his native land his Bullet Mecanique, which nearly precipitated a riot on its premiere in Paris (TIME, March 21). The young composer's theory is to express the U. S; in its own terms of steel, machinery, physical strength, without employing jazz. To this end he has created a symphony of percussion instruments, ten mechanical pianos, several xylophones, assorted bells, wind machines, aeroplane propellers, etc., abjuring completely more lyrical aids. The ballet is a thunderstorm of noise lasting a quarter-hour. Carnegie Hall, jammed...
...Born. To Mrs. Margaret Thayer Suydam, daughter of Headmaster William Greenough Thayer, of St. Mark's school, Southborough, Mass.; and to John R. Suydam, of St. Mark's faculty; a son. The boys of St. Marks loudly cheered, were accorded a full holiday in honor of the event...
...Born. To Robert E. Crowe, famed Illinois State's Attorney, able prosecutor of Leopold & Loeb (TIME, Sept. 8, 1924); a son, Thomas George Crowe (9 Ibs.). Attorney Crowe is now the father of five...
...considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John's son Danforth, six (including Philip D. I and Herman Ossian). Philip D. I's son was Jonathan Ogden...