Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like storybook fashion rose Tenor Frederick Jagel, 25-year-old son of a Long Island church organist, another of Mr. Gatti-Casazza's finds. As he sang in the choir he charmed a wealthy silk merchant, who financed Singer Jagel's higher instruction. He is singing in Italy as Signer Iagelli...
Soprano Leonora Corona of Dallas, Soprano Mildred Parisette of Philadelphia, Mezzosoprano Margaret Bergin of Pater son, and Bass-baritone Fred Patton of South Manchester, Conn., are the other U. S. natives...
...Fourth Reader was quite grown up, with more Bible selections and excerpts from Bacon, Addison, Milton, Shakespeare and an anonymous story about the woman who, by generously sharing her last smoked herring, rediscovered her long-lost son...
William Holmes McGuffey, born in Washington County, Pa., in 1800, son of an Indian scout of Scotch descent, attended the Old Stone Academy at Darlington, Pa., and .Washington College. He won fame as "mental philosopher" of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and at Ohio University (then as now at Athens, Ohio) and the University of Virginia. He formulated Ohio's school laws, organized Ohio's teachers; married twice, "preached 3,000 sermons but never wrote one"* and was as famed in person as in publication...
Much has been made of the "luck" of the "flying fool". Yet not luck but courage, heroism will inspire those who remember what the son of a Detroit school teacher has done in attemptiny this sensational experiment not alone in aviation but in manliness...