Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve on a state Supreme Court, the first to sentence a murderer to death. Born in Salt Lake City, Florence Allen, at 15, moved with her family to Cleveland, was her class cheer leader at Western Reserve, graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1904. An able musician, she went to Berlin to study, earned piano money by writing criticisms for New York's Musical Courier. Two years later she returned to Cleveland as the Plain Dealer's music editor. New York University gave her an LL. B. An able feminist, a Dry, an opponent...
...actor-musician has had much contact with the local debutantes lately, as he has been presented over the radio every afternoon since his arrival, giving interviews to the Boston society girls. "They even turned out at the station to meet me," said he, "they're a swell bunch...
...Margaret, who had a pretty voice, took great pride in helping plan the musicales. Mrs. Harding, whose favorite piece was "The End of a Perfect Day," was less interested. Mrs. Coolidge, who plays the piano a bit herself, liked Rachmaninoff and Violinist Albert Spalding. Mrs. Hoover's favorite musician was Harpist Mildred Dilling, whose most famed pupil is Harpo Marx...
education for her child, Johann, who at an early age gives excellent promise of becoming as sure a musician as his worldly father. He has his triumph in 1844 when he succeeds in swaying Vienna more than had his father in his debut eighteen years before. Son is like father in many respects but he never forgets the debt he owes to the self-sacrificing mother who is at once the most human and the most herioc person in the biography. Mr. Ewen presents the contemporary life of the musician very factually; he considers the European tours of both...
...Musician's Guide to May Week" of last term contained an unexampled number of errors, both of information and of orthography. These were caused, firstly, by a touching faith in what my fellow creatures tell me, and secondly, by the fact that, with my usual flair for matters editorial, I arrived to correct the proofs two days after the article had gone in to print. I apologize, then, to the Musical Societies of Queens' and Downing, for depriving the one of the credit of engaging Beatrice Harrison and for assigning to the other the said credit which...