Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Jefferson once experimented with a vineyard in Albemarle County. importing skilled husbandmen from Italy. With the workmen came. Charles Bellini, citizen of Florence. Try as they would, however, Bellini and his men could grow no grapes for Jefferson. The vines sickened, withered, were abandoned. Whereupon Jefferson, in a gesture at once courteous and resourceful, had Bellini installed as a professor at William and Mary, then a sprightly institution only 86 years old. There Bellini stayed from 1779 to 1803, teaching Italian and Spanish, "first professor of modern languages...
...unthinkable and impossible to imagine that the real Americans of the type who made this country, such as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson or Monroe, or the devout and God-fearing Pilgrims who preceded them, should voluntarily sit and watch corpulent Italian, Spanish, French or German aliens and a few Americans, trained in Europe and alienized, enacting, upon the stage, scenes of Latin passion, seductions, betrayals, murders, assassinations, insanity, jealousy, disease and death. The horrible nature of operatic librettos is intensified by poignant, passionate music, acting and singing. The American mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera...
...Unlike Presidents Washington, John Adams, Wilson, Harding and himself (in his first term), and like President Jefferson and all his successors through President Taft, President Coolidge (in his second term) will not appear before Congress to deliver in person his message on the State of the Union, but instead will send his words to be read by the clerks...
...Physical Colloqium will meet in Jefferson Physical Laboratory at 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Dr. S. K. Allison will talk on "Some Recent Developments in the Study of X-Rays and the Structure of Crystals...
...National Committeeman again during Wilson's second administration. In connection with horse-racing, he was a member of the Kentucky Racing Commission from 1914 to 1919. In connection with the Confederacy, it was largely through his efforts that a great shaft was erected at Fairview, Kentucky, in memory of Jefferson Davis, whose birthplace it was. In 1923, he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans. Last spring he was reëlected. In his official capacity, he presided last June at the dedication of the shaft at Fairview. It was said that he never missed a reunion...