Word: josepha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven Daughters off to join, and surpass, Mrs. Bailie in protest, was the discovery that Prof. Irving Fisher, famed Yale economist, had been blacklisted. Mrs. Fisher was among the Daughters who resigned. Also, Mrs. Henry H. Townsend, a onetime Representative in Connecticut's legislature and Mrs. Josepha Whitney, first woman ever elected to New Haven's board of aldermen. Mrs. Winchester Bennett, a daughter-in-law of the Winchester Repeating Arms family, was another resigner...
...Symphony-all played magnificently. When the concert was over, 100 guests remained, having been notified of a "Concert by a Visiting Orchestra -Sokolai Nikoloffsky, conductor." The program: I. Echoes from Home, song of Vulgar Vodka; II. Well-Tampered Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin; III. World Debut in America of Josepha Fuchsia, violiniste, in an Old Time Concerto by Vieuxtemps; IV. War Dance, Skilton-Coolefske. At the conclusion of the second number, Conductor Sokolai Nikoloffsky flourished his dirty pink coat sleeves, grimaced, leaped in air. From the wings came the first violinist, in female apparel, to reproduce the temperamental repining...