Word: linde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most interesting bits in the book, which is made up of interesting bits strung together on long thin threads of personal narrative, are the chapters devoted to Jenny Lind and General Tom Thumb. The reviewer wonders how many readers shared his own ignorance of the fact that Barnum brought Jenny Lind to this country. The Swedish Nightingale was given to the American public as a proof that the sponsor of Joice Heth, the Fejee Mermaid, and the Model of Niagara could also produce some legitimate and more high-hat entertainment. Except for a few financial statements, the story of Jenny...
...Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich were obscure until...
...Cole '27, D. F. Harding '27, David Whiting '29, J. C. Sprague 3ES. J. B. Parker '29, L B.H. Sparrow 3ES, C. B. del Solar '29, E. S. Stimson '27, Norman McDonald '28, L. M. McTurnan '28, Moses Ellis '28, G. O. Russell '27, A. W. Lind '29, Humphrey Statler '29, W. W. McAdams '29 and M. A. Jensen...
Sweet and low, then soaring. What but "Jenny Lind"?the little swede that Barnum made "The Swedish Nightingale." Ah, ah. . . co-lor-a-tur-AH?very nice. The audience stood up and cheered while young Composer Moore bowed from...
...Hartwell Jr. '29, J. H. Harwood Jr. '27, C. E. Henderson '28, A. A. Hofbrook '28, R. S. Holden '29, T. D. Howe Jr. '28, J. W. Hurlbut '27, T. E. Jansen Jr. '26, Sargent Kennedy '28. Roy Lamson Jr. '29, R. S. Landers '28, A. W. Lind '29, R. N. Lord '27, W. W. Lord '28, J. H. Monroe '27, W. G. Woody '27, 11. L. Morgan Jr. '28, John Noble Jr. '30, G. A. Norton'26, K. A. Perry '28, W. P. Pratt '28, Chandler Robbins 2nd '28, R. B. Schneider '27, A. W. Stone...