Word: sainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before he had left the College de Saint-Clement at Metz, the Franco-Prussian War broke out and, like young Joffre and Castelnau, he served France's lost cause. The next year, he went back to Metz and, in July, passed the entrance examinations for the Polytechnique at Nancy, which town was still occupied by the Germans. At the Polytechnique he was a classmate of Joffre, a few months his junior. It is not certain if they were close friends...
...week, in Manhattan, the Women's Symphony Orchestra of America filed papers of incorporation. The capital was named at $250,000; number of players, 60; conductor, Madame Elizabeth Kuyper, Dutch musician. A month ago, in London, the British Women's Symphony Orchestra gave a concert, played Handel, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Weber with competency. Musical people who read of these events in the press began to ask questions about women conductors, women orchestra players...
...women composers, instrumental virtuosos, of every nationality-Clara Schumann, wife of the great German composer, Robert Schumann; Mrs. Chazal, English composer, pianist; Carlotta Ferrari, foremost woman composer of Italy; Teresa Carreiia, Venezuela. Ethel Leginska has frequently been given public attention when she conducted orchestras (TIME, Jan. 19). A woman, Saint Cecelia, is the patron saint of Music. At all these notable women, male musicians have sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew the age-old controversy: "Should women confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love...
...dissolute, cast-off track-shoe. Harold M. Osborne, famed Illinois jumper and Olympic Champion, carefully placed that old shoe beside the special runway which had been marked out for him at one side of the jumping posts. Many athletes believe that in a cast-off shoe, as in a saint's relic or the trophy of a holy war, lodges some curious potency ; and who shall say that Osborne's was not charmed? For, after acutely regarding this raffish talisman, Osborne measured his distance, sprang from the ground higher than ever a man had hoisted his body before...
...sweet eulogy of a saint that would make a dog sick...