Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe deans Miss Mildred P. Sherman and Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller will give a tea for seniors who are completing their undergraduate work this term Friday afternoon at Miss Sherman's home...
Officers are not holding Mrs. Griffin and two others who were with Baker at the night club and the Baker home shortly before the tragedy. But Hopkins said they had been asked "not to get very far away" in the event they are wanted for further questioning...
There is a reason for this ecstatic epithet, for Mrs. Coolidge has done more than any American, perhaps anyone in the world, to popularize and encourage this art. More than, that she has had a real influence on the course of music in the twentieth century. One critic wrote of her concerts, "They have become a sort of musical weathervane. They show us how the mind is set in contemporary music...
...When Mrs. Coolidge's father, mother, and husband died within 15 months of one another about 1915, Frederick Stock, then conductor of the Chicago Symphony, persuaded her to engage a house quartet to cheer her. Two summers later, when the Stocks were visiting her in the Berkshires, they went to a chamber music festival in Connecticut. At dinner that night, Mr. Stock suggested that Mrs. Coolidge's quartet should play at the festival. Her answer, "Why go so far; why not have it here?" was the beginning of the great scheme which has made the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts...
Most biographers begin their books with a bow to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Brown, without whose patience and generosity this book would never . . . etc., etc. Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, who was brought up a cavalryman in the reign of Franz Joseph of Austria, includes a jab of the rowel: "I wish to express my admiration for the courage of those who thrust upon me their uninvited advice on a subject of which they had no knowledge, and which ... I avoided accepting...