Word: rhoda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will select three of the most able violinists in the Graduate School and train them himself. An appropriation has been made for publishing worthy works by U. S. composers, to be issued as the Juilliard Editions. Rhoda Erskine, (sister of Author Erskine) will give classes in history and literature for students who have had little general education...
...official meetings of the conference, two forums were held. The first, entitled "Relations Between Mexico and the United States" was led by A. E. de Los Monteros. In the second, Miss Rhoda McCullock, of the national Y. M. C. A. propounded the theory that life is primarily for human enjoyment with spasms of discord and disease, and H.-Pitt Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary spoke of human life as a service to mankind. He showed how an emergence of the two theories of self statisfaction and service makes the contented...
...theme of the conference will be "Christian Belief in Action." Miss Rhoda McCullock, of the National Y. M. C. A., will point out to the delegates some of the weaknesses in the present social and industrial order...
...three pianos and with the assistance of a student stringed orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...
Said Sergeant Rhoda Milliken, policewoman : "Any music played on a saxophone is immoral...