Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When veteran Conductor Walter Damrosch once asked a schoolchild who Charles Wakefield Cadman was, the child answered: "He's a great American Indian." Prior to 1915 Cadman spent some time among the Osages and Omahas, recording their music, lecturing on it, deriving themes from it. Two decades ago he turned from such ventures to the writing of opera, produced Shanewis, first U. S. opera to survive two seasons in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera House, and A Witch of Salem, given by the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Then he turned to orchestral pieces and chamber music. An indefatigable...
...During the war. a woman made application to pass through his lines into the Confederacy, with her family, household effects and a Negro child. The application reached General Wistar marked "Approved except as respects the Negro child." Wistar wrote on it ''approved, including the Negro, since such a child if left behind and separated from its natural protectors, would require dry nursing, for which I possess no soldiers properly fitted...
Born. To Max Baer, onetime (1934-35) world's heavyweight boxing champion and Mary Ellen Sullivan Baer; their first child, a son; in Oakland, Calif...
...Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing archness on the part of the playwright and his actors...
Author Sackville-West was their only child. By the time her memories begin, her mother was well launched on a career of making married life interesting. "How my mother puzzled me, and how I loved her!" she declares. Recklessly extravagant in gaudy gimcracks, her mother saved wrapping paper and string, wrote letters on toilet paper. When she got a fresh air mania, she propped open all the doors, ate outdoors, snow notwithstanding. War came "as a personal insult." Her own War service consisted of taking in five wounded Belgians, whom she quickly turned out again as spies because they bored...