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...Style in which these lives and episodes are related and the settings of chivalric South Carolina worked up behind them do vast credit to their author. The dialogue, especially the ejaculations ("By cock and pye!", "Shut your clamtrap!", "A real, spang beauty!") are as racy and robustious as the points of honor are delicately sharpened, polished and thrust home. Author Minnigerode, master of informal biography (The Fabulous Forties, Lives and Times, Aaron Burr, Some American Ladies) has outdone himself in a piece of biographical fiction second to none this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Cock tails of Italian vermuth, with olives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...clever cock crows from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romany Summer | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Rome after repeated failures. He went to hear Liszt play Weber's Concertstück, at the finish publicly embracing Liszt. That night the two musicians entered a drawing room together where musical prejudices were being aired, where Weber's name suffered scorn. A young French cock intimated that it was not enough for the court of Louis XVIII that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine for a local operatic golddigger. Asked his opinion, Liszt silently laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melodious German | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...Sects. G1, G2, G3, G4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hulse, Sects. H1, H2, H3, H4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Mitchell, Sects. M1, M2, M3, M4 New Lect. Hall Greek G 1 Allen Stensland Sever 29 Thomas Yakubisin Sever 30 Greek 8 Sever 30 History 11 Aldrich Conkey Harvard 2 Cock Zanetti Harvard 6 History 55 Sever 36 Italian 3 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mathematics A IV. Mr. Garabedian's section 1 Sever 35 Mr. Marden's section 3 Sever 35 Mr. Stabler's section 2 Sever 32 Mathematics C Sec. III Harvard 5 Mathematics 2 Sec. III Harvard 3 Mathematics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAMINATION SCHEDULE | 6/16/1926 | See Source »

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