Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KENNETH F. HILL...
...husband, Otto Klemperer, tall guest conductor of the New York Symphony, lifted no baton that night. Dramatic, he sat at the piano; his long fingers played accompaniments to four songs of his own composition, while his wife, Johanna Klemperer, sang. Her voice, except when she lifted it above F sharp, was rich, colorful, expressive. The song "Es war ein Koenig in Thule" was the most original...
...F. E. Robinson, up-and-doing Dayton druggist, in whose historic store the Scopes trial crowds spent much time and money, is president of the Bryan Memorial University Association. And in Manhattan, last week, newsgatherers discovered one of many local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged...
...lighthouse, the young man whipped off his coat and dove overboard. His wife fainted. Passengers stumbled over suitcases to the rail. Then they saw that the young man, swimming powerfully, was saving a small boy. Tender-Captain Russell's ten-year-old had tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member, had plunged to the rescue. A one-time (class of 1917) Princeton footballer, saturnine Knowlton L. ("Jew") Ames Jr., publisher of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, was nearby in his speed launch. While the tender turned itself around...
...many years ago, Mr. Davis gave a white boy a job and picked a dog out of an ashcan. Both proved faithful. A few years ago the dog was dead and the boy was rich. Pictures of both appeared in the newspapers because the boy was John F. Dodge who, with Horace E., was Dodge Brothers ("Constant improvement-no yearly models...