Word: enfants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lincoln Monument with the home of General Robert E; Lee on the Virginia shore. It would furnish a direct route from the Capitol to the National Cemetery at Arlington. It would extend the city's Mall across the Potomac to the grave of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Frenchman who designed the Capital city...
...unknown and youthful pen arrived before the public eye. By degrees he worked himself up the literary ladder, grew to know and to be known. Practically all the contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind...
...Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 106 Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 29 Bach Professor Davison Invocation. "To An Old Picture" Wolf Prayer Wolf "O had I Jubal's Lyre" Handel Mrs. Winternitz Pastorale Franck Bourree Handel Professor Davison Scripture Reading. Romance Debussy Recitative et Air de Lia ("L'Enfant Prodique") Debussy Mrs. Winternitz Scherzo (Second Symphony) Vierno Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Finale in B-flat Franck Professor Davison
Small and comparatively unimportant states often cause more trouble than large and better behaved ones. Just at present Oklahoma is the "enfant terrible", and is suffering from an acute internal disorder which all the governor's horses and all the governor's men are attempting to make well again. But even if the governor should succeed temporarily, and even if the present crisis should be passed, there are symptoms of the same disorder in other parts of the country...
Tschaikowsky's endlessly played Symphonic Pathetique appears not at all. Debussy is represented only by an aria from L'Enfant Prodigue, and by none of his orchestra pieces. Nor do we find the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven. The seventh was the only one of his symphonies played. These omissions are sinful. But many will find them a trifle refreshing...