Word: aix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance, that the Philadelphia Orchestra was more than a tool for the musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
...Austen's limousine was stopped by a cement safety zone, while its glass windows became splinters. A passing motorist rushed him to Westminster Hospital, and next day he was sufficiently recovered to set out for a holiday at Aix-les-Bains, France...
...From Aix, Sir Austen planned to go on to the forthcoming League of Nations Council session at Geneva...
Stanley Baldwin, Premier of Britain: "The secret leaked out last week that recently, when I passed through Paris on my way home from Aix-les-Bains, I arrived at the French capital asleep, though the hour was 10 a. m. Rubbing startled eyes, I beheld through the window of my sleeping compartment a silk-hatted delegation of welcome from President Doumergue. Discomfited but not nonplused I dressed hastily and managed to receive my well-wishers just before my car was switched onto a train destined for Calais...
...earth to heaven, but the theft of their bones from the Roman tomb in which they were interred, their stealthy removal from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle. The miracles wrought by the relics, and even by portions of them stolen from the thieves during their journey, fill out the narrative...