Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Shakespeare: "Will my daughter prove a good musician? I think she'll sooner prove a good soldier." But women have never believed him. In 1888 a Boston woman named Caroline Nichols formed the first all-woman symphony orchestra in the U. S. Her "Fadette Women's Orchestra" (named after the heroine of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette) barnstormed up & down the U. S. on Lyceum courses and vaudeville circuits, grossed more than half a million dollars before disbanding in 1920. Since Maestra Nichols first started swinging her mutton-chop sleeves many a woman...
...arranged to honor him. Honor him they did, with oratory and applause. But Dr. Dewey heard them not. He was not in Manhattan, not in Chicago, not in any of a dozen other places where Dewey birthday meetings were held. Painfully modest Dr. Dewey had hidden himself on a daughter's ranch in Greencastle...
...Dewey now spends his summers in Nova Scotia, his winters in a Manhattan apartment with his youngest daughter. His favorite hobby is solving acrostic puzzles with his family. He also likes to read detective stories, fancies himself as a farmer. But John Dewey spends most of his time thinking. Father of six children (two died young and he adopted another), he early learned to concentrate on his work amidst domestic bustle. To his classes he lectured in a monotonous voice, made no rhetorical effort whatever to interest his audience. Once, after droning on to graduate students for three solid hours...
Born. To (James) Vincent Sheean, 39, war correspondent, peripatetic journalist, novelist, best-selling autobiographer (Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword), and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 24: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10z. Name: Ellen Gertrude...
...reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...