Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather short and stocky gentleman, emerging in evening clothes from the ante room . . . looked neither to right nor left, took two at a time the steps leading to the stage . . . Arthur Honegger, arisen, significant, acknowledged figure of the new generation." So. last week, did H. T. Parker of the Boston Transcript appraise Boston's guest conductor. Thus are adjectives made to grow, for five years ago Honegger had been just a precocious fellow who at seven had composed two operas in the treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties...
Thus, with a familiar and ironic boast began the last will and testament of Tex Rickard, famed fight promoter, dead of an operation for appendicitis. When it was read last week, it was discovered that Tex Rickard had left his estate, amounting to between one million and three million dollars, to his wife Maxine and to his daughter, Maxine Texas Rickard...
...away again. Back to the newspapers, he was errand boy for a night editor and did some exhibition boxing. Later, as a sports writer for the Record, he earned as high as $3,000 a year. When the Record and the Herald merged, Writer Hertz was left without a job. So he managed boxers...
Married. Mr. Tifft, paper box manufacturer of Brooklyn, N. Y., and one Ruth Esther Petersonn, of Fryburg, Me.; in South Berwick, Maine. A parental tiff over names left Mr. Tifft first nameless; he remains so, is listed in the telephone book as TIFFT...
...geniuses; by suicide in his Manhattan studio. Artistic conqueror of four cities: Berlin, Rome, London, New York, he sculpted Wilhelm Hohenzollern; painted King Edward VII, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Elbert H. Gary; designed the King Edward VII postage stamp of the British Empire. Recently he acquired internal cancer. He left a note to his sister: "I am already a burden to myself and my surroundings...