Word: casimir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming off the press. Meanwhile, four new. books on Chopin's life and music (the best: Polish Poet Casimir Wierzynski's The Life and Death of Chopin-Simon & Schuster; $3.95) had appeared in U.S. bookstores...
Begge, John William, Crocker, William Tufts, Flagg, Washington Allston. Jr., Holden, William Hall, House, Theodore Grant, Mitchell, William Foster, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr., Watkins, Ernest Lyndon, Ferguson, Oliver Drayton (Manager...
Bachelors of Arts (Out of Course), as of the Class of 1946: Melvin Breath Casey, Casimir de Rham Jr., Paul Martin Goldhill, William John Dean Kennedy, Marshall McKibben Kincaid, Cloyd Laporte Jr., Robert Leventall, John Stanley McCormick Jr., Joseph Menuel Paniello, John Ivan Simon, John Eliot Thayer...
...turn the young girl into a half-hysterical bundle of nerves. She became morbidly religious, wore spiked necklaces to mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
Rise & Fall. More than once in the next 300 years, the Poles marched as far as Kiev; more than once men from the East, notably the Tatars, swept into Poland. Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there...