Word: da
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...
Back to his studio went Photographer Steichen, sorely nettled. He labored over the second plate until he got a fine, enlarged print. He showed it around. Everybody liked it. Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen...
...ever used, capable of carrying more than 11,000,000 pounds). After Conductor Giorgio Polacco has become a shadow in a bowl of shadow, his shirtfront and the tip of his nose touched with golden light from the page in front of him, the familiar strains of Aïda will begin (Rosa Raisa and Charles Marshall in the leading parts...
...with a yawn." His biographer Merezhkovsky (pronounced Meer-ish-kawf-skee) is not such a writer. A strange trilogy has "made" Merezhkovsky - a trilogy distinguished by vividness, mysticism and symbolism. It consists of three novels, each one glorifying some significant man into an Antichrist - Julian the Apostate, Leo nardo da Vinci, Peter the Great. But these are novels; the Merezhkovskian Life of Napoleon, less tightly woven than the author's previous book on the same idol, distinguishes itself from the mass of Napoleonic lives by disclosing a secret. Secret of the Napoleonic will-to-power, reveals Biographer Merezhkovsky...
Would other Embassies follow the British and go Dry? It seemed unlikely, though guests recalled that Jose de Horta Machado da Franca, Visconde d'Alte, the Portuguese Minister, was no server of "intoxicating beverages" at his entertainments, and that Chilean Ambassador Carlos Davila, after giving a dry dinner to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, recently had queried his Government on the wisdom of cutting off its embassy's liquor supply, not to accord with U. S. Prohibition, but with a new temperance movement in Chile...