Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among all the third-party candidates destined to be defeated and forgotten in next week's Presidential election, Socialist Laborite John W. Aiken of Chelsea, Mass. has the distinction of expecting the fewest votes from the U. S. electorate. Though it claims to be the oldest established radical party in the land and has had a ticket in every Presidential campaign since 1892, the Socialist Labor party polled only 33,276 votes...
...Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"Mozart *"Unfinished" Symphony, in B minor Schubert Second Movement--Andante con moto *Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner "La Nuit Revecue" ("The Night Relieved") (After the Poem, "Senlin" by Conrad Aiken) Bainbridge Crist *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"Merry Widow," Waltzes Lehar *"Deep River," Negro Spiritual Arr. by Jacchia *Procession of Bacchus from "Sylvia" Delibes Selections checked '(*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
Died. Hamilton Fish, 86, son of President Grant's Secretary of State, father of New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. (1903-08), Representative from New York (1909-11); in Aiken...
...Courad Aiken possess a tremendous ability to trace and realize the aberrations and fixations of the human mental mechanism which he displays impressively in King Coffin. The whole study is brilliantly worked out, convincingly set down. If is a document that should endure