Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert Bacon Fall, once an ambitious Kentucky boy, founder of "Fall's Business College for Young Men" at Nashville, Tenn., who reached wealth, fame and a place in the Harding cabinet via law, mining, cattle dealing, lumber trading and being Senator from New Mexico, still carried his broad-brimmed black hat, still chewed unlighted cigars, but bore his 66 years tiredly. His grey mustache drooped, his grey suit hung loosely, he slouched silent in his chair...
...Manhattan. For 49 years a Damrosch has been host at the New York Symphony*- for seven years Leopold, its founder; for the last 42 Walter, the son. But at the first of the golden anniversary concerts given last week Walter Damrosch was not in his usual place, sat instead in the centre box and led the applause for Fritz Busch. Guests followed his lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden...
Married. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired 1926), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Trew, widow (1926) of the onetime Master of the Brexhill Harriers. Best man was Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of England's Boy Scout & Girl Guide movements...
...having as my guests at tea a number of high school girls who have won prizes for fast typing. Any one of them, in learning to be a fast, accurate typist, does far more for the community than a dozen Gertrude Ederles or Ruth Elders."?Winifred Sackville Stoner (founder of the League for Fostering Genius...
...report then mentions Yale men who admitted both sexes to schools, who founded seminaries, and who were pioneers in co-education, such as A. P. Barnard, founder of Barnard college...