Word: dreyfuses
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...prominent politicians and attach himself to none; he should always be in the orchestra stalls, but never jump on the stage." Some could not resist jumping. In 1899, the Paris correspondent reported Queen Victoria's indiscreet telegram to her embassy, expressing horror at the verdict against Alfred Dreyfus. The exclusive story would have created an international sensation, but the dispatch was killed. "It was not for the Times," says the history, "to indulge in such triumphs...
Bloch had grown up in Geneva-a Geneva seething over the Dreyfus affair-the son of a clock merchant. He studied music in Brussels, Munich and Paris, but when his father's business went bad, he came home to help. As a child, he learned from his father the Jewish lore and emotional melodic strains that permeate his music, but he dislikes being classified, as he often is, as a racial composer...
Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...
...charming partners for dancing at the Copley were envisioned by Mare G. Dreyfus '47, who stated with confidence, "The left side of the face is Allegretti; the right side of McClosky." He left the torso a toss...
...race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during the war, his meeting with ex-super-pimp Charles "Lucky" Luciano in Havana-little-noted Columnist Mortimer suddenly attained the stature of a Dreyfus, and a fortune's worth of publicity...