Word: iras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rigby Wile, 16, son of Ira Solomon Wile, M. D., famed psychiatrist-child specialist; in his father's home in Manhattan; by self-inflicted rifle shot, because he found life "futile." Said Dr. Wile: "I have no idea what led him to such a philosophy...
Nicolay and Hay's Lincoln states that Robert spent the evening at the White House gossiping with Major Hay. The party at Ford's included Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Harris and Major John R. Rathbone, daughter and stepson of Senator Ira Harris of New York...
...that Mrs. Gershwin detected any seeds of musical talent in her grubby young son. Se bought the piano because her sister-in-law had one. There it stood, big and shiny; it had cost a lot of money, and no one in the Gershwin family-not even Ira, the oldest, who was certainly a smart boy- could make music on it. George would have to learn. For some time the neighbors suffered; then they advised him to study in Europe. His first teacher died when he was still torturing Chopin's preludes. Max Rosen, famed violinist, told...
...entered my head. But they came by accident, for no one in our family had ever gone to college, and such an education was for rich men's sons, according to the traditions at our house. One evening, as I sat puzzling over a lesson for the morrow, Professor Ira N. Hollis, who is now President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, came and sat on my desk. During our conversation I told him that on the following day we should have to choose between the college and the general course and that I planned to take the latter. He advised...
Citizen Genet. "Louis Capet," said The National Gazette, "has lost his Caput." In theatres, audiences rose to sing Ca Ira and the Marseillaise. Gentlemen everywhere drank toasts to France. How they welcomed Citizen Genet, Ambassador of the Republic! There was even a rumor that he was bringing the lost Dauphin with him in a trunk. He made the unpardonable error, however, of mistaking the voice of the people for the voice of the Government. The President soon set him right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that...