Word: bride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high-society theme. In this case, the son of the house has become engaged to the very attractive daughter of a deceased bookmarker, and his ingenious mother invites the girl and her "designing" parent to Deynham so that her son may see by contrast the short-comings of his bride-to-be. From the opening scene of general consternation in which the rector's wife remarks that "In times like these, a visit is often most helpful"-the times in question being births, deaths, etc.-to the close of the last act, the play moves smoothly, logically and above...
...what was the purpose of Isadora, or rather Mrs. Serge Yessinin the bride, in performing as she did? Did she, by the scantiness of her costume, wish to excite our sympathy for the starving Russians, as scantily clad? Was she demonstrating some orgiatic dance of the Slava, newly taught her by her latest husband? Or was she trying to get the audience in such a state of frenzied enthusiasm that when she came to her climactic outburst it would dash madly to the stage and with her as leader straightway set up a soviet in America? If she were...
Last Thursday evening the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Monteux conducting, gave its sixth concert at Sanders Theatre. The program was as follows: Schubert, Seventh Symphony; E. B. Hill, Waltzes for Orchestra; Rimsky-Korsakow, Air from "The Tsar's Bride"; Prokofiew, Song Without Words; Moussorgsky, Revery and Dance from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk"; Wagner, Overture to "The Flying Dutchman...
...high cost of loving" it is nothing compared to the high coast of remaining single. By the simple process of taking a wife, a man may jump his exemption from $1,000 to $2,000 which virtually makes the ordinary citizen's income tax-free. Many a blushing June bride has been hustled to the alter in the middle of December to gain the $2,000 exemption for the entire year. Love as usual has found a way to surmount all obstacles...
...emotional vibration that is in it, the answer that contains the pathetic questions of the heart. So I am accustomed to say that the relation between poetry and science is the relation between poetry and science is the relation between man and woman, for poetry is the bride of science...