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Word: damosels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same high regard. Often he is vexed by it-for coming late, for coughing, for leaving early. Last week he rebuked it publicly for general lack of interest. A chorus of 30 Glenville High School girls had assisted in a concert, just finished Debussy's Blessed Damosel and taken their applause when Conductor Sokoloff stepped up. Said he: "If this were a baseball or basketball game, or other physical exhibition, we would have turned thousands away. But here we have a group of children doing a serious work marvelously and our auditorium is less than half filled. . . . I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cleveland Rebuked | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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