Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imperative Request. Not long ago the General, ripe with the prudence of 60, was appealed to by a charming woman whom German Monarchists still hail as their future Kaiserin. She, Princess Cecilia, onetime Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, onetime Crown Princess of Germany, asked little enough of old General von Seeckt. Surely the General would let her eldest son-her Wilhelm-enter the Ninth Company of Infantry in which the Hohenzollerns have always served...
...fellow members, I know that of old, Cecilia and Seraphs were fascinated and men were enraptured; I know Timotheus, with magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
December 8--The Stuff Stars are Made of Dr. Cecilia H. Payne...
...been an assistant conductor of the Cecilia Society of Boston, and has directed several orchestras in this vicinity. In 1923 he was leader of the Freshman Glee Club...
...partly because of a certain modesty of attempt in many of the pictures, there seemed to be in this, as in other women's exhibitions, a note of apology. The most impressive work in painting and drawing was a portrait study in oil and several charcoal heads by Cecilia Beaux, "dean of feminists in Art";* in sculpture, by Malvina Hoffman, who took a prize with her bust of Paderewski...