Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith has a cemetery handy. Near the hospital, 438 dead dogs already lie in neat graves covered with vines and freshly cut flowers. Small white tombstones mark each place. One, a double grave, has a large headstone on which is carved "Mary and Jane of Sunnyfield?Awakened From the Dream of Life." Another stone memorial has painted on it a life-like picture of the deceased?a pomeranian. The inscription...
...story is old or new. They do not concern selves with such portentous events as operatic premieres. It was the them-grown-ups last week who appeared most impressed by the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (A Naughty Boy's Dream), also written for children and given on a double bill with Hansel und Gretel. They were importantly aware that Ravel is considered the foremost contemporary French composer. Some had heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely Mother-Goose Suite, his high...
...logs in the library of the Union, from after breakfast until dusk, reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Autumn loured in cloudy skies and mourned in the gusty wind, steps scffed along the board-walks, football songs were whistled, the oak door slammed; it all sounded as from a dream. He was living in a remote heroic world. That was the days when-the intellectual passion was kindled in him, when he promised himself that he would be somebody. He kept his word. It is in the silent places that such resolutions are taken, and there, too, the decisive battles...
...year-old ex-President Irigoyen became alternately a "prisoner" and a "guest" of the Uriburu regime. Official announcements on this point finally became so jumbled that only this could be said: a white-haired old man slowly mounted the gangplank of the cruiser Belgrano, walking as in a dream between his daughter and his doctor...
...Dream Waltz of a Newark matron (Mrs. Edna R. Passapae) and a Brooklyn dance-master (A. J. Weber) was adopted as the official waltz of the year, demonstrated by President Sheehy and his daughter Katherine. Tempo is slower than the famed Boston Waltz, the steps are long and combine waltz, hesitation and running movements. ''Long dresses," declared Matron Passapae, "are bringing back the waltz because its gliding smooth steps are the ones that look best for young women in the new attire...