Word: primadonna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheriff Bob went back to painting. Followed a second marriage to the tempestuous primadonna Lina Cavalieri. Another brother, John Armstrong Chanler, had attracted no little attention by running amuck, shooting his butler, and effecting a spectacular escape from the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (Manhattan). He fled to Virginia, was judged legally sane, changed his name to "Chaloner" and set a brass plate in his dining room floor "To the Memory of a Faithful Servitor." No sooner did the news of Artist Bob's marriage to the spectacular Cavalieri reach Virginia than Brother John sent his most famous telegram...
More discriminating than Edgar Allen, however, are the students at Dartmouth who have condemned the somewhat unadulterated tintinabulation manufactured in the belfry of their Baker Library as monotonous and not delightful, despite what Poe may have written on the subject. Hence an administration evincing praise-worthy reverence for the primadonna temperament of its student body has obligingly purchased an electric keyboard operated by musical rolls with a view to civilizing Baker's obstreperous bells into respectful and conventional cadences. Sensitive Hanover ears need no longer suffer the excruciating agony; instead, well modulated hymns accompany the embryonic Emmets on their trek...