Word: spellbound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. A little girl sat in the gallery at a Tetrazzini concert, her black pigtails rigid with excitement. The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile...
Ignace Jan Paderewski celebrated, last week, in London, his 68th birthday. The United Press reported: "He is still holding audiences spellbound with his magic touch on the ivory keys...
Instead of sitting spellbound or humming they stood up bravely and shouted out the words of songs when they were lead by Homer Rodeheaver, who has been for 18 years musical assistant to Evangelist Billy Sunday. He likes to be thought of as the introducer and exploiter of Negro spirituals...
...inauguration, his nomination of President Benjamin Harrison. An annual event was his report to the Union League Club, in Manhattan, on his summers in Europe. At the Republican National Convention in 1916, Senator Harding called on him unexpectedly during a lull in the proceedings. Aged 82, he extemporaneously spellbound the hall for 45 minutes. Four years later he repeated the feat...
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