Word: ite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This probably seems like a strange statement for Bach and Handel are almost in the old favors ite class. However, the popularity of Bach's keyboard music and Handel's Messiah has done as much to shut their other works off from the public as it has to make their names great. For example, of the Bach works which the Boston Symphony has done in the Friday and Saturday series them--two were arrangements of organ works and the other was the first performance in that series of the Sixth Brandcuburg Concerto...
...State chairman of the Daughters of the American Revolution: "I've heard of people hanging themselves from a lot of things, including chandeliers, but I should think if anybody wanted to kill himself he'd pick out something sturdier than our pretty little redbud." An Oklahoma City-ite named John Ishian said he had never heard of Judas trees growing in his native Jerusalem...
...with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical Co. in 1895 and withdrawn from production four years later...
...only name the Mayor failed to recall. He remembered Frank R. Fageol, the Kent, Ohio bus builder who was a potent Equitable backer. But he did not remember Mr. Fageol's Vice President Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foam-ite Corp.) or President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber Co., both of whom contributed heavily to Equitable's $282,000 promotion fund. Two weeks before, Mr. O'Neil had testified that he and most of the Equitable promoters had joined the dapper Mayor at a merry "old clothes" party the night...
...France. "Monsieur Tuck," said M. Doumergue, "this visit has been a real joy to me. Your latest munificence will perpetuate your name in the memory of a grateful France. Monsieur Tuck, we practically consider you a Frenchman!" It was a heartfelt if somewhat startling compliment. As every French social ite knows, leaders of the U. S. colony in Paris are three elderly gentlemen: elegant, wasp-waisted Berry Wall, once New York's Best-Dressed Man; dignified Wil liam Nelson Cromwell, who has the curious distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor; and Art Benefactor...