Word: troy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati, married, had a son, married again, then had a son every other year for six years -four sons in all. The first two sons married Cincinnati young women. The third took a wife from Troy, N. Y. The youngest, with a touch of genius, married a young lady from Niagara Falls. Today the original son and his three half brothers are personages: 1) Publisher Charles Phelps Taft, 84, of the Cincinnati Times-Star; 2) U. S. Chief Justice and onetime U. S. President William Howard Taft, 70; 3) Potent Manhattan Lawyer Henry Waters Taft, 68; and 4) Headmaster Horace...
...Diller, Manhattan, (best text writer)-They Saw Europe on Dimes-for Manufacturers National Bank, Troy...
...time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence...
Among the previous selections have been such works as: "The Orphan Angel" by Elinor Wylie and John Erskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...Mozart and Brahms program, rendered on three pianos and with the assistance of a student stringed orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...