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Updated: July 25, 2025

Still, the trustees, and several others who were responsible for the coming of the pug-nosed singer, persisted in speaking of him as "a greater tenor than Jean de Rezske," and my prospective father-in-law was a trustee, and a good-natured man to boot, so he had compassion for him "In the old country when we meet a new-comer we only say, 'Peace to you," I remarked to the cantor, gaily.

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