Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whimsical, greying man of 44, Philadelphia-born Frank Jeremiah Black can look back through his heavy horn-rimmed cheaters on 25 adventurous years in music As a boy he played the piano in a nickelodeon. University of Pennsylvania turned him out a chemist, but piano-pounding in a Harrisburg hotel offered better money. From then on he stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under...
...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
...donation of $500 to the Dental School Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association, to purchase an X-ray machine for the committee's dental clinic at the Charlestown Boy's Club was reported today by Raymond Dennett, graduate secretary of Brooks House...
From ransacking Newell for a boy called Levin...
...general attitude to the same effect that teachers are born and not made, that teaching is an art which no amount of training in the science of education can impart. Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education has summed it up as the opinion that "any fine boy or girl will make a good teacher" whether or not he has any knowledge of the technical aspects of teaching itself...