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...fact that your very story of the despond of politics in the Stale proves the contention of recent years that South Carolina has become "a too numerous democracy," which was the very thing that its founders would not have it, and which it was not in the heyday of its great statesmen and leaders...
...Spanish Students." So intense was their rivalry that, when the two troupes met in Denver, they battled it out with fists. To the musical instrument trade of the U. S. this was a godsend. The mandolin was something new to most people, and in the 1890's, heyday of parlor music, that wiry-sounding fretted instrument became the rage...
...back to New Orleans. Hot jazz cultists who have learned to treasure the Dixieland's out of print phonograph records as classics and museum pieces never believed they might actually hear them together again. With the exception of Ragas who died when the troupe was in its heyday, the personnel of the historic little combination will be the same, although a few extra players may be added. Russell Robinson, Ragas' successor, who composed Margie and Palesteena, will again be the pianist, after four years on the Horn & Hardart (Automat) broadcast. Edwards and Sbarbaro, who have had spasmodic club...
...with the Stuttgart Opera when in 1886 Walter Damrosch visited there, offered a Metropolitan contract to Therese Forster, a comely young singer who was to become Mrs. Victor Herbert. Damrosch offered Herbert $60 per week for the sake of signing up the singer he wanted. Mrs. Herbert's heyday was brief. She retired to bear children, grew plumper & plumper, never quite mastered the English language...
When Henry Cabot Lodge was in his heyday...