Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Durbin sings a new song (Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year) and an old one (Always) unusually well, bears up well enough under her elementary dramatic burdens. So do Gene Kelly and Richard Whorf (as a newshawk). But Christmas Holiday, an unsubstantial little tragedy at best, runs...
The Puritan colonies tried to suppres time-honored holidays like Christmas an-Midsummer's Day. Thanksgiving was pretty good substitute for the former and the people insisted on making Harvard Commencement a substitute for the latter. By the early eighteenth century, Harvard Commencement had become a "riot" Every graduate came...
Flamenco v. Classical. When a Spaniard speaks of flamenco music, he means a kind of inspired strumming and wailing, rich in Moorish overtones, which bears about the same relation to the comparatively sedate folk music of Spain that New Orleans jive does to the prim fiddling of U.S. hillbillies. Few...
Facing the future, Mises is filled with gloom. He sees no willingness anywhere to return to the free market. To him there is little difference between British Liberals, British Tories and British Laborites; they all believe in the gospel of government interventionism. Hitler, says Mises, must be defeated. But in...
De Villiers lost his leg in a grain mower when he was five, bears a scar on his left leg from the same accident.