Word: linde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's good friend, Miss Emelie Augusta Louise Lind-af-Hageby, founder of the British Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, wrote she had moved into a new office. The Baroness asked Kurwenal what he said to that. He yelped: "No flowers. My warmest greetings...
...reach. Later in his Magic Flute, Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night-one of the most difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless C's above high C. Among high coloraturas of the past half century, Luisa Tetrazzini was one of the most famed for her high F#. Half a dozen years ago, however, in the small provincial opera at Bielefeld, Germany, a newly-hired soprano sat practicing cadenzas...
Best-known speaker to the convention was Chicago's Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, who restated for the chaplains the arguments they knew well as to why Christians could be obligated to go to war. Chaplain William A. Sessions of Fort Lind, N. D. was billed to show how he led CCC boys in singing with his expensive accordion, but someone stole the instrument when he laid it down for a moment. For the third year the chaplains elected as their president Dr. Arlington Aice McCallum, reserve chaplain, energetic rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington...
Sculptor Hoffman is the daughter of the late great British Pianist Richard Hoffman who at the age of 18 was engaged by Phineas Taylor Barnum to tour the U. S. with Jenny Lind. Later Pianist Hoffman married one of his pupils, extremely Socialite Fidelia Lamson of Manhattan. A lifelong friend of Malvina Hoffman is Monologist Ruth Draper, with whom she used to play in the back yard of the Hoffman house on Manhattan's West 43rd St. It was while peering out of a front window from that same house that scrawny little Malvina first felt the surge...
...Manhattan 14 years later Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum crowned his noisy career by importing Jenny Lind, a Swedish vocalist for whom he had built up a tremendous ballyhoo, to sing for New Yorkers at five dollars a head. The New York Tribune's reviewer thought this no excessive charge. In his paper for Sept. 12, 1850, he extolled "the quality of that voice, so pure, so sweet, so fine, so whole and all-pervading. . . . We never heard tones which in, their sweetness went so far. They brought the most distant and ill-seated auditor close...