Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viennese Waltzes (by Emmerich Kalman and Franz Lehar; Decca). A heart-touching musical trip back to Europe's 20th Century Golden Age. On five ten-inch records Harry Horlick's orchestra evokes a vanished world of kid gloves, claret cup and candlelight. Some of the numbers-most of which come from Kalman's Sari and Gypsy Princess, Lehar's Eva and Zigeunerliebe-were not previously available on U. S. records...
...newcomer to America is the great modern architect Michael Breuer, some of whose works are now on exhibition in Robinson Hall. At the age of thirty-six Breuer is now one of the foremost of Modern architects and it is from his creative genius that a new era in American architecture may spring...
...painful lessons of recent years in public administration," he said, "that the governments of many of the states, like the governments of cities in the Boston metropolitan district, are incompetent to administer the pressing tasks of the present age...
...age of Ann Pennington and Marilyn Miller, Jerome Kern and Vincent Youmans, "When It's Moonlight in Ka-lu-a," "Rose-Marie, I Love You." In the season 1924-1925, to pick a sample year, there were 46 musical shows on Broadway...
...best parts of The Buccaneers are its glimpses of raucous and pretentious Gilded Age society in New York, where social maneuvers interweave with Wall Street plots and humble wives of new millionaires squat uneasily on upholstered fortunes. Although Editor Gaillard Lapsley compares scenes in The Buccaneers to passages in Proust, the comparison only calls attention to Mrs. Wharton's limitations: brilliant chapters like those laid in Saratoga fade out quickly, to be followed by weary passages scarcely superior to the average fiction in women's magazines...