Word: farrar
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...career. It is to be doubted that any singer has ever made a debut with the fortunate circumstances under which Rosa Ponselle made hers. She had been a cabaret singer in New Haven, Conn. She was just out of vaudeville. Gatti Casazza thought he had found a second Farrar. For her first operatic appearance, the New Haven girl opened the Metropolitan season singing opposite Caruso in Forza del Destino. She had an enormous triumph that night. Since then her success has languished. She is an American. Perhaps if she had the personality of Jeritza she could have overcome that handicap...
...spectre of Yale literary supremacy refuses to be downed, though various incantations have been chanted before it. Heywood, Broun John Farrar, George Chappell, and their fellow-conspirators have reared it out of an excellent brand of ektoplasm, and the creature stands, menacingly real, before the eyes of the critics who are watching college-bred literature. The latest appearance of the ghost was in a review (by one of the conspirators) of the "Eight More Harvard Poets". After declaring that of course "there is nothing in the book approaching the fire and genius of the Benets of Yale", he enters into...
This cataloguing is perhaps a poor but at least an honest way to attack the dark blue ghost. Yale, it is true, has a highly honorable list of its own, with he Benets and such men as John Farrar of the "Bookman" at its head. But more interesting, perhaps, is the place that Yale has won in critical and editorial, circles. With New Haven men writing the book reviews, reading the manuscripts for publishing houses, and editing the magazines, it is altogether natural that the name of Yale should be heard more often than that of Harvard in literary company...
...Divinity Hall on Divinity avenue and Andover Hall, on Francis avenue, the Gothic grey stone building to the east of the tennis courts at the end of Divinity avenue. In Divinity Hall are students' rooms, common rooms, and Chapel. In Andover Hall, the offices, recitation rooms, library, the Farrar Room, Andover Chapel, and a number of rooms for students...
...irrepresible vitality of youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield in search of new Molochs. And the blushing maiden, too, is not satisfied until she has set on a pedestal an idol, at which she may gaze with fond adoration. A Farrar, who made the flappers shriek with grief as she bade them adieu from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, or a passionate twentieth century Valentine, who makes his audience stare with awe as he wrecks the lives of tearful cinema ladies, may easily become, the objects of feminine idolatry...