Word: isabellas
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...given on the evenings stated at 8.15 o'clock, has been arranged by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the University choir. The carols to be sung this year are "The First Nool"; "Wassail Song", by Vaughan Williams; "Chanson Joyouse", by F. A. Geraert; "Bring a Torch, Jennette, Isabella", an old French carol harmonized by Nurm; "Christians Song of the 14th Century", by Bodenschatz; "Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep", a Besancon carol; "Silent Night, Holy Night"; and "Hallolujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...
...Isabella Greenway. She operates large copper interests in Arizona left her by her late husband. Longtime intimate of the Roosevelts. she was a bridesmaid when they were married in Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day 1905 in the presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full...
...organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club guarded against intruders. Long afraid of street cars, she died of cholera...
After visiting an electrical pageant at the Olympic Stadium as the guest of Publisher Hearst's friend Marion Davies and other cinema celebrities, Governor Roosevelt rolled off to Williams, Ariz. where he joined his wife, spent a few restful hours at the Quarter Circle Double X ranch of Mrs. Isabella Greenway, one of Mrs. Roosevelt's bridesmaids...
...Died. Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, 80, Irish dramatist, patroness of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, widow of the late Governor Sir William Gregory of Ceylon; in Belfast. An able playwright (Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gods & Fighting Men, Saints & Wonders), she sponsored the "Celtic Renaissance" with George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory's young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell...