Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kappel, Greta Stückgold, Frida Leider. Of the 225 contestants eight had been chosen for the finals. There were Harold Haugh, earnest, 28-year-old theological student from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship in a restaurant supply house; Clifford Menz, son of a St. Paul lawyer; William Horne, a smiling, square-shouldered boy who runs errands for a Manhattan laundry; S. Powell Middleton who supervises the public school music in Mount Lebanon, Pa.; Jesse Wolk...
...news he dismissed Nijinsky from the Ballet. A baby was on the way. The couple, who were just learning to converse in pidgin-French and Russian, went to Austria. There the War caught them and the authorities refused to let them leave. They were imprisoned, not in an army camp as other accounts have stated, but on the top floor of Romola's mother's house. She proved a stern jailer. Nijinsky was a hated Russian. His status as a dancer was forgotten. He had no space to practice, spent his time working on a system for annotating...
...expelled from his hospital; on the bandages of the patient he had just operated on was rubber-stamped: "I have been shameless enough to allow myself to be treated by a Jew." Gustav was foolish enough to go back to Germany where he was arrested, clapped in a concentration camp. When the Oppermanns got themselves together again in Switzerland they were no longer solid German citizens: Martin would begin again in England, Edgar in Paris; Berthold was dead; Gustav was dying...
...faltering technique of amateurs--however practiced they may be in pursuit of dame publicity. A great deal more basis is there for the surmisal that the thing was purely an inside job, and that Daniel, collar, leash, attractive physiognomy and all--fell victim to dissension within his own camp. His ministry has not been wholly a successful one, and other ministers, more handsome perhaps than Daniel, have fallen to the assassin's blade for less...
...Some years ago Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of England, made a historic visit to the United States, during which he engaged in a famous secret conversation with the then President Herbert Hoover while both were sitting upon a log at the Rapidan Camp. . . . There have been many surmises and speculations as to what was said, but the veil of silence has remained unlifted until today. . . . I believe the time has come to make it public. I shall...