Word: clara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exchanges were jammed and calls were blocked as long as 15 minutes. Inspectors scurried out on the new Bay bridges to make sure nothing had been jarred loose. Seismologists estimated that the shock was about half as strong as the catastrophic quake of 1906. Dr. Albert Newlin of Santa Clara University said that slippage had occurred along the Hayward Fault, which runs nearly 50 mi. southward from...
Hurled against the side of her cabin during a heavy sea, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the late Humorist Mark Twain and widow of the Detroit Symphony conductor, left the storm-tossed S. S. Rex in Manhattan with her arm in a sling, her head bandaged...
...Mannes was playing a solo between the acts at the Herman's Theatre. Conductor Walter Damrosch called him to his box, signed him up as a first violin with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Damrosch's sister Clara was singing with the Oratorio Society when Mannes met her. In 1898 Mannes became concertmaster of the Symphony, married Clara Damrosch the same year...
Died. Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, 36, "Lu" of the radio trio "Clara, Lu 'n Em," wife of Professor Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern University School of Speech; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. Ill with influenza in Evanston lay "Em," Mrs. John Mayo Mitchell. On the air nearly six years, their gossipy act was conceived when the three were Zeta Phi Eta sisters at Northwestern...
Louisiana State, with no blot on its record except a tie with Texas, agreed to play Santa Clara, then the only undefeated, untied major college team in the U. S., for the "national championship" in the Sugar BowL Texas Christian the following week dampened Louisiana State's hopes by beating Santa Clara. Last week in New Orleans, Santa Clara doused them thoroughly by beating Louisiana State, with two touchdowns in the first period, another in the third...