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...Author?Publishers Doubleday, Doran announce that The Forge is the first of a cycle in which Author Thomas Sigismund Stribling?will show "the upheaval of a whole civilization." A Tennessean but not an unreconstructed Southerner, Stribling* has written of the Civil War with malice toward none, with flashes of charitable humor for most. Other books: Birthright, Teeftallow, Bright Metal, Backwater...
...Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...
...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...