Word: rainsford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD ANDOVER Robey, g. g., Cross Sargent, r.f.b. l.f.b., Howard Powell, l.f.b. r.f.b., Bower Alexandre, Rainsford, von Stade, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bagg Robie, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hazeltine White, l.h.b. r.h.b., Rosenfeld, Clifford Earle, r.o.f. l.o.f., Stott, Eames Davis, Grandin, r.i.f. l.i.f., Chakrabandu Simpson, Smith, c. c., Mendel Sleeper, l.i.f. r.i.f., Ross Rowley, Tylor, l.o.f. r.o.f., Thompson...
...lust for the body of St. John the Baptist. The churchgoers were offended enough by the screaming dissonances and the way Fremstad brought the horrid head up to the footlights, caressed the matted black hair, kissed the cold lips. But no one was so outraged as Dr. William Stephen Rainsford when he went to breakfast on Monday with his spiritual client, the late John Pierpont Morgan. One public performance of Salome was given that night. Then the elder Morgan asked for a special Metropolitan directors' meeting and the wanton Salome was banished. Not until last week was Herod permitted...
...soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod or to grovel before a horrid head of St. John the Baptist. Once, 25 years ago, it attempted to give Salome and Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, the late Mr. Morgan's spiritual adviser,? was so upset that a directors' meeting was called, the opera withdrawn from the repertoire because it was "objectionable and detrimental to the best interests of the Metropolitan...
...Kerr Rainsford, whose hobbies are collecting armor and singing Christmas...