Word: agog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wieland" in TIME (Aug. 30) , I would like to add a story about him which was told me several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown and of local society, then a reception for the rest of town and gown...
...towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with...
Supposedly based on an actual "scandale amourouse" in pre-war Vionna, centers around a handsome artist who does sketches for the less respectable magazines. His portrait of an indiscreet but fashionable lady, clad only in a muff and a mask, is published by mistake, and all Vienna is agog. To conceal her identity, he invents a name...
...other to the full, with now a roving eye, now an unconnubial sigh, now a kiss and a sniff at the inevitable camelias she caried at her breast, our brain snapped. The meaning of camelias, and flowers in general, and girls in particular, dawned. Three Cambridge florists have looked agog as we popped into their shops, smelled their specimens, and popped out again high in humor, proving our theory...
Those who feared that the maestro's great days were over were soon undeceived. In August he set musical Salzburg agog with a heaven-storming performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, a glorious Falstaff, an incomparable Die Meister singer (TIME, Aug. 24). Last December he went to Tel Aviv and, with all his oldtime brilliance, led the new Palestine Symphony through its first performance (TIME, Jan. 4). All of this encouraged U. S. music lovers to hope that the maestro was not lost to them forever...