Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came luncheon, provided on the scale of a local fiesta. Peasants and the local gentry mingled. President Calles, beamingly in his element, led hearty singing of mellow Spanish songs. What did the U. S. guests think...
...include diaries, letters, addresses, state and war papers, have been arranged chronologically by Author Osborn, and connected by concise, impartial passages to facilitate transition from one document to the next. The whole effect is admirable, and the book has at least one advantage over an autobiography in that the element of self-interest, so often so obvious, is pleasantly lacking...
...CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS-Duncan Aikman-Henry Holt ($3). Ladies a la carte make up this racy repast served on a cloth flamboyantly patterned with genuine early day Westernism. Calamity Jane forms the pièce de resistance-"comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling...
Tutorial reading will be assigned during the Reading Period, and a knowledge of the ground covered in this way will be tested by the tutors at the opening of the second half-year. It is our intention that the tutors should introduce the needed element of elasticity in adjusting the work of their students so that each student will have a unified program with neither too much nor too little reading...
Rarely does a Manhattan audience get to its feet once it has arrived and settled itself, but the better element* in a Manhattan audience did so last week when an oldster came out on the stage of Carnegie Hall and with just a little difficulty made his way across and up on to the conductor's stand. He was 82-year-old Leopold Auer, teacher of such famed violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist. For the second time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public...