Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horn in Berlin and brought up in Buffalo in what she terms one of the "Harvard periods" of that city, Miss Cornell made her theatrical debut with the Washington Square Players in 1917. Since that time she has acted in many Shakespearean and modern plays, becoming one of the most accomplished and renowned stage actress of the present...
Phil C. Neal '40 last night urged that "even minor matters" should be brought to the Council's attention, and pointed out that questions raised by individuals, as well as by undergraduate groups, are considered by the Council...
Conductor Harrison's tentative tuning-up brought hisses from his fellows. Crackled perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw (in a telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything...
...summary of Aldington's grievances and a fable which brings the wheel full circle, from war to war. Its hero is a "War baby," the by-blow of a high-minded 1914 romance between an aristocratic infantry subaltern (later killed) and the belle of a small industrial town. Brought up by his maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When he is 18, his embittered grandfather dies, leaving him $500 and some advice...
Raided by a Japanese destroyer, attacked by pandits, caught in a Chinese convertible bomber on a secret flight carrying $8,000,000 for guerilla troops in North China--these are only a few of the thrills enjoyed by the 19-year-old scholar-adventurer who brought back 2000 manuscripts and six or seven scrolls from the distant land of the Nashi peoples...