Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beta Kappa was the progenitor of all Greek-letter college fraternities although, unlike its successors, it based its membership solely upon scholarship. It is older than the Constitution of the United States, having been founded on December 5, 1776. The idea of an organization which should weld men of scholastic attainment together in fraternity was conceived by John Heath, a student at William and Mary College, who formed the nucleus of Phi Beta Kappa with four fellow-students. The strength of their conviction as to the need of such a fraternity for "attaining the important ends of Society" is attested...
Died. Dr. J. S. Halstead, 107, "oldest physician and oldest Free Mason in the U. S.," progenitor of 80 living descendants, survivor of a wife who had passed away at the age of 95; at Breckenridge, Mo., in the night. For a year he was the family physician of Henry Clay, famed orator. In 1851 Mrs. Clay called him in to treat some slave children on their plantation who had contracted scarlet fever. He became the friend and medical adviser of Mr. Clay, who died...
Rosmersholm. Since Ibsen is generally considered the progenitor of the Renaissance in modern drama, no play of his can be passed lightly by. Rosmersholm has sometimes been thought his greatest. Almost everyone had given it attention on the printed page, but very few had ever seen it acted. Mrs. Fiske, John Mason and George Arliss did it once long...
...learned audience. This was just what Cowell tried to achieve. It is easy enough, he believes, to write music that will draw tears out of the emotional listener, but few composers have succeeded in pulling a laugh. Not even jazz can do it. Cowell thus promises to become the progenitor of a race of U. S. musicians exclusively devoted to the Comic Muse. France has already started such a line with Eric Satie and his followers, the "Group...
...also, that at about the same time Horace Greeley, great progenitor of the Tribune, turned silently in his grave...