Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week centred about the mail truck hold-up at Elizabeth, N. J., in which a Government employe was killed and $300,000 worth of registered mail was stolen. Postmaster General Harry S. New arose with a battle cry: "If it takes the Army and Navy to do it, the United States mails must be protected and the lives of postal employes safeguarded...
Died. Lady Elizabeth Grace Dimsdale, 44, widow of Sir John Dimsdale of London, who shot himself in 1922, "social house mistress" at Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Conn., girls' school); in London, by drinking lysol...
...Congress and his musical assistants; and thus actually under the auspices of the U. S. It was the second of an annual festival begun last year. The name of the festival, however, is not "All-American" or "Bigger and Better Music Week," as one might suspect, but the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Festival, so-called for accuracy's sake after the extraordinary lady who built the marble temple, provided for its maintenance, inveigled Congress into accepting it as a gift to the nation, and who personally arranges the programs, invites the artists and pays them...
...Coolidge's latest European importation, the fiery Pro Arte Quartet of Brussels-"young lions of the conservatoire," one and all. With much gusto two of these attacked a most modern sonata, compounded of unconvincing fifths, dissonances and Debussyesque decoration, with which Albert Huybrechts, young Belgian, had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize for 1926.* Compositions by. other Belgians-rich, sensuous Cesar Franck and trickier Joseph Jongen, little-known chief of the Brussels Conservatory. The afternoon was devoted to Russians, with the Stringwood Ensemble of New York at the desks. Many a 100% Congressman might have glowered had he known...
...have established chamber music within earshot of the very lobbies of Congress and actually under federal patronage was a feat for no ordinary woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield. Mass., and Washington is certainly unique. Discerning travelers along the road from bustling Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed...