Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Opera, most heroes and heroines, ample of brisket and bosom, love and suffer loudly and straightforwardly. When the tenor and soprano get in one of their deplorable, inevitable fixes, they inevitably thrash their arms, square off at high Cs. Not so the hero and heroine of Pelleas et Mélisande, Achille-Claude Debussy's 40-year-old opera (his only completed one) based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Laid in "an unknown land" in a vaguely medieval time, Pelleas is elusive, dreamy, half-said, half-unsaid. Of all her troubles, Mélisande never says anything...
...country after 1919, Architect Rothschild tried to get permission to move to some other country. After a great deal of difficulty, he got a permit for himself & family to enter Chile, in return for which he agreed o help Chile rebuild after its earthquake (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939, et seq.). Well-to-do, he sailed from Genoa with his family and belongings last September, is now in Valparaiso...
...have liked to have stuck Prince of Wales feathers in their hair and gone to Buckingham Palace, stuck flowers in their hair instead and went to swank Grosvenor House. For this war year there will be no court presentations of debutantes, and-at a loss to London caterers, florists, et al. of $3,000,000-no individual debut balls. It was all done at one whack at the Grosvenor, and it was the biggest social event in London since break...
...velvet-draped auction stage. But spooks lurked behind that arras. Last summer the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries folded up for nonpayment of debts (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week its two partners gave Manhattan its best mystery story since Drug Dealer Frank Donald Coster (TIME. Dec. 19, 1938, et seq.). Tabloids christened it "The Art Gallery Mystery...
...elme, invocati, sub toga quaque cor sine mendacio et sine coronary thrombosis pulsare scimus. O, moraturi (ex inquistionibus) vos salutamus. Vos intrepidos de metu libri careuleri vereti sumus. Pro vobis solis fores gloriae et W P A apertae sunt. Yalens, officiumque bursaris vobis de causa elata sunt."--Yale News Editorial...