Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Symphony in G major, opus 41, is divided into three movements: (1) Allegro grazioso ma con brio (2) Molto moderato ma non troppo lente (3) Allegro energico...
Professor Louis Cons addressed the members of the Modern Language Conference last night in the Junior Common Room of Leverett House on "Enrangeant ma Petite Bibliotheque...
George McKinlock pledged $250,000 to Northwestern in 1921 to buy nine acres on Lake Shore Drive for a campus for professional schools,* to be a memorial to his son, Lieut. George Alexander McKinlock Jr., who was killed by a German ma-chine gun near Soissons in 1918. Later he added to his gifts to Northwestern, donated some $500,000 all told. He also gave $500,000 for a freshman dormitory at Harvard, which his son had attended...
Frampton Mansell munitions manufacturer, art patron, bachelor, a snappy dresser who cultivated his whiskers to bring out his resemblance to Sir Francis Drake. His phobia was ineficiency; his favorite pastime, composing ads for the latest wrinkle in Mansell ma-chine guns: "Mansell's Deadly Death Rose". . . A child can use it . . . Invaluable to all Dictators . . . A Corpse for a Ha'penny...
...Bessie Smith was born some 41 years ago in Chattanooga, Tenn. At 12, as a protegee of "Ma" Rainey, pioneer blues singer, she was moaning in tent shows like the Rabbit-Foot Minstrels. With a big, vibrant voice which survived even her last hard-drinking days, she sang blues songs long before the War brought the blues (and jazz) north, lived to see strict blues singing yield popularity to the sophisticated torch singing typified by the art of Ethel Waters. But Bessie Smith left her mark on jazz. Hot instrumentalists like Benny Goodman and the late "Bix" Beiderbecke, listening...