Word: maestra
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...symphony orchestra in the U. S. Her "Fadette Women's Orchestra" (named after the heroine of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette) barnstormed up & down the U. S. on Lyceum courses and vaudeville circuits, grossed more than half a million dollars before disbanding in 1920. Since Maestra Nichols first started swinging her mutton-chop sleeves many a woman's orchestra has been heard in the land. Since few U. S. symphony orchestras hire women players, female fiddlers and cellists who are not good enough to be soloists have no other place to play...
...Mary Jones, a widow, and Daughters Gladys, Hazel, Dorothy and Evelyn-so said their friends-had long been ardent Catholics. Mother Joseph of the San Antonio convent confirmed that they had been admitted. At week's end they were still postulants. Miss Jerry McRae, maestra of the Rangerettes, declared she would welcome back Gladys, Hazel, Dorothy and Evelyn Jones if ever they changed their minds...
...calls for more than a dilatory attention. There is the foundation to be laid--apparently eight long years--and then there is the super-structure which makes the building so attractive. The completed product is the triumph of instinct over intelligence. But a twelve year course, even with a maestra's baton in view, is rather long and arduous. Aborigines accomplished similar ends with much less difficulty...