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...Sigismund Ochs, a great musician, born on the Rhine, emigrated to America, trunk marked S. 0., U. S. A., therefore the name. The English version is that I am one Sam Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand of the story is that I am a Greek named Philipso, emigrated to America, a great musician; carried my worldly possessions in a box marked S. O., U. S. A., therefore the patronymic." Mr. Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., 1854. His father was Portuguese...
...Corporation-long one of the leading factors in the security underwriting business of New York City. What proportion of earnings comes from the bank proper, and what proportion from the subsidiary, is known only to Mr. Baker. And, on this subject at least, the veteran banker still deserves his cognomen: "The Sphinx of Wall...
...Leaves. A vagrant project, of the type that annually prowls unheralded into a vacant theatre during the Lenten season of depression and low rentals, appeared under this curious cognomen. It told how women will do anything for clothes. Two in particular had only a paltry $40,000 income and longed to spend it all on evening wraps. They both got into difficulties, gave their husbands opportunity for angry exit. It was one of those high-society plays, written (by Harry Chapman Ford) in the best manner of burlesque and acted even beyond that inexpensive level. There have been...
...Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay published a book entitled The Golden Whales of California and Other Poems. Thereafter, many sport writers adopted Poet Lindsay's picturesque phrase, applying it to football teams of California University as a cognomen thought to be appropriate in view of the prowess of those teams. TIME thanks Subscriber Mott for recalling the official epithet...
...London. We meet for the first time Shelmerdene, "that lovely lady." We find incorporated a first draft of the first story in These Charming People. We learn, in a gracefully whimsical introduction, how it was that Mr. Dikran Kuyumjian chanced to adopt the less complex and more indigenous cognomen under which he has become so pleasantly-and to himself, profitably-known. On the whole, The London Venture will be of some considerable interest to those who crave to know the man behind the pen-name, to those who eagerly lap every drop of ink that may flow from his cleft...