Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet, "The Baby Browning of Brooklyn," whose first volume of verse, The Janitor's Boy, was heralded by critics to be a work of genius...
Alston Hurd Chase of Salem; Eugene Eisenmann of New Orleans, La.; Sumner Wilson Elton of Dorchester; Milton Irving Kats of Brooklyn, N. Y.; George Thomas Major of Easthampton; Norman Warren Schur of Beashmont; Lewis Hyman Weinstein of Portland, Me.; Lenson Arnold Weissberger of New York City...
...with its season. Maria Jeritza as Tosca, lying in a lovely heap upon the floor of Scarpia's apartments, delivered a moving and irrelevant commentary upon love and art; Mme. A Ida (wife of Giulio Gatti-Casizza) appeared in La Bohème; Aida was given in Brooklyn...
...proposals to their fellows or to their stenographers, business men of Brooklyn have evidently been troubled by stuttering. Under the supervision of the Chamber of Commerce, a sixteen-weeks course in public and private speaking has been instituted to enable the business leaders to become articulate...
...hopes that the development of oratorical excellence in Brooklyn, will find some reflection in business letters. Perhaps, after a few courses of sixteen weeks each some more original formula can be devised as an opening sentence than. "Yours of the fifth instant to hand. In reply will say"; and some concluding phrase discovered, more genuine if less hearty, than: "With best wishes...