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...Betty Humby was the youngest sprig ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14, she took on 30 pupils of her own. At 16 she became a piano professor, under Pianist Myra Hess at Tobias Matthay's famed London music school. Later she married an Anglican parson, the Reverend H. Cashel Thomas, now vicar of St. Philip's in London...
Making memorable the occasion, Jack Barrymore, who was referred to by Variety last fortnight as "that daft sprig of catnip," had arrived at the studio cold sober and an hour early, for rehearsal...
Rudolf Diesel was proud, sensitive, generous, an engineering genius, but not endowed with much money sense. He was a man of the world who spoke fluently not only German but French and English. His father, sprig of a Bavarian Protestant family which had produced craftsmen and tradesmen for generations, was a restless bookbinder who went from Augsburg to Paris. Rudolf, born in Paris in 1858, learned to use his hands in his father's atelier, delivered finished goods in a pushcart. Stirred by the ferment of new inventions-the storage battery, the gas engine, electric lights, dry-plate photography...
...Harvard Crimson has recently confessed in a burst of lyric journalism that "If you notice an extra sprig of parsley on your potatoes or a red cherry on your grapefruit, you will know that Harvard's first dictitian, Miss Ruth E. Trickett, is jazzing up the menus." (Should we inquire what the food used to be like in that most venerable of educational institutions?) This fact in itself is not at all startling, but the history of this dictitian is, on the contrary, very much...
...notice an extra sprig of parsley of your potatoes or a red cherry in your grape fruit, you will know that Harvard's first dietitian, Miss Ruth E. Trickett, is jazzing up the menus...