Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoke, never have and never shall" were the emphatic words of Schumann-Heink, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of her singing career in Boston. "I don't believe in it for women; let us leave just a little of the poetry attached to the name of woman. Of course it is all right for men; but when I see women and especially young girls smoking I could slap their faces right and left...
...what French name is the Indian "pipe of peace" generally known...
Singer Christine Nilsson, who played Mignon, name part, in the first production at Paris, brought the opera to the Academy of Music in Manhattan in 1871, to the Metropolitan Opera House in 1883. The last singer to dare the role was Geraldine Farrar. She was 26 years old then...
...cadet, large-scale farmer, large investor in manufactories, wholesale merchant, citizen with public spirit enough to enter politics and fight for reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which, when developed, may well be served by step-keeping public servants, journalistic and other wise, from...
...blue and sometimes the golden front cover of the distinguished Magazine of Wall Street, there often appears the signature of its editor and publisher-C. G. Wyckoff. Manhattanites were surprised last week upon learning that this name does not belong to a brother, cousin, nephew, uncle or any other blood relation of Richard D. Wyckoff, the financial writer who founded the magazine in 1907. The name is that of his wife- Cecelia Gertrude (Shere) Wyckoff. The secret came out with news that Mr. Wyckoff had sold to Mrs. Wyckoff for $500,000 his minority holding in the publication, which...