Word: sigismund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Through the Year With Sousa (published by Crowell) by John Philip Sousa, Mr. Sousa says: "The story of the supposed origin of my name is a rattling good one, and, like all ingenious fables, permits of international variation. The German version is that my name is Sigismund Ochs, a great musician, born on the Rhine, emigrated to America, trunk marked S. 0., U. S. A., therefore the name. The English version is that I am one Sam Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand...
...Author. Among all the 96 counties of Tennessee there is no Lane County. But there is Wayne County in the south-central part, and there Thomas Sigismund Stribling was born in the reversible year of 1881. Preternaturally indolent and talkative, he successfully resisted his father's efforts to make a storekeeper or lawyer out of him. He wrote incessantly. His failure to sell anything was just as incessant, until he caught the knack of turning out moral tales for a Sunday school magazine. These, turned off at the rate of seven a day, permitted him to live...
...year 1415, Emperor Sigismund, the perfidious ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and the last of the Luxemburg dynasty, had burned at the stake one John Hus, protestant against the Catholic Church (he is alleged to have intimated that the Antichrist might be found at Rome), and a hero of Bohemia...
Left row-Guy Maier, Krnest Schelling, Lee Pattison, Sigismund Stojowski and Guiomar Nova...
Brazil. Prince Sigismund, son of Prince Henry of Prussia, after a three months'" stay in Brazil, decided to settle down in Sao Paulo, where he has been representing a Hamburg coffee firm. His wife, daughter of the deposed Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, left Hamburg to join...