Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rosa Sucher, 78, famed oldtime Wagnerian opera soprano; almost penniless, at Eschweiler, Germany. In her years of glory she was appointed court singer and decorated by Emperor William I. The early failure of her voice was reputedly caused by the midnight suppers which she arranged for her conductor-husband's delectation. Once, at Beyrouth she ate a full bottle of anchovies between the first and second acts of Die Walkure...
Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...
...Singer Manufacturing Co., which makes 80% of the sewing machines in the world and sells them through agencies in practically every community of the world, is one of the corporations which Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard scolded in his book Main Street and Wall Street- for furnishing "neither hide nor hair of financial data ... in the usual sources of information." Singer officials are seemingly thus niggardly because their stock is closely owned by people, many of whom knew the founders of their corporation and remember the anecdote of how the late Inslee A. Hopper became their first president...
...before the Civil War. Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) was a Yankee peddler hawking notions through Connecticut when he came across the lock stitch sewing machine that Elias Howe (1819-67) had invented in 1846. Peddler Singer made some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear...
...McMaster Jr. '29; F. G. Mantle '28; E. W. Moore '29; R. H. Norris '29; W. F. Ridout '28; E. A. Rieckman '29; S. M. Rosenberg ocC; Harold Rosenwald '27; S. C. Sanders '28; D. M. Sandomire '29; W. S. Seidel '29; Jerome Simmons '29; J. W. Singer Jr. '28; Hyman Sobell '28; J. S. Stamm '28; S. W. Stark '27; A. H. Swirsky '27; M. M. Tall '28; John Volkmann '27; L. H. Weinstein '27; M. A. Westgate...