Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this summer; and England, where he is a member of the Royal College of Musicians, all sat up last week to take notice of Composer Eugene Goossens' new opera, Judith. England sat up the most sharply because the premiere was at Covent Garden and because it was the first all-British opera in a long time. Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett wrote the libretto and beamed from a box, while Composer Goossens bowed from the stage, during the ovation. The cast, furthermore, was all-British except for the title part, sung and danced by Gota Ljungberg, able Scandinavienne...
...Author. Born in Camden, S. C., John K. Winkler went to school in Manhattan. In 1908, aged 18, he got his first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that...
Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
...Webster entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They be came such close friends that even in their college days they were a team called "Stone & Webster." At that time electricity was passing through much the same pio neer period now observable in aviation. Bell had just invented the telephone. The first railway electrification was just completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank to get the financial experience for the Stone & Webster...
...Their first contract came from S. D. Warren & Co., papermakers. It was secured partly through an ingenious stratagem of Employe Cartwright. At that time typewriters were extremely scarce and expensive, far beyond the means of the young firm. Nevertheless, when Paperman Warren came to Stone & Webster to discuss the contract, the click-click-click of a typewriter could be distinctly heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered...