Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because the priest is a man of God, and God is no Communist...
...Slavic evolution. Centuries before the bright miracle of Bethlehem the Slavs were a nation of lithe, swarthy wanderers who cultivated the land northeast of the Carpathians. Fearfully they turned to dark hills for sullen, reverberating commandments of Perun the Thunderer. Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God. Then their sweating oxen strained over furrows; hives were loud with bees; joyous honeyed mead was brewed in the glades. With the arching zest of dolphins the Slavs plunged in the waters of the Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled in their river bank encampments, shuddered...
...Bulgarians. All are Slavs, despite their differing nationalities, characteristics. Alfons Mucha possessed the requisite imagination and pride to epitomize this development. Proudly is he Czechoslovakian, proudly a Slav. White-haired, rugged, in this man the strain is sharply apparent. His far-off ancestors surely looked on Svetovit, three-headed God of Plenty, symbolized by sun and bull. He has the boundless Slavic intensity and energy which make the leaders of his race indefatigable in labor, irresistible in personal charm. Years ago, in Paris, his posters of Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda and La Samaritaine took him pyrotechnically to fame. They were...
...Lady Astor was speaking of women. In literature, of course, women have always been inferior to men in the quantity and quality of their writing. Some of them have written entertaining letters, diaries or confessions; they have been good at text books for small children, verses and hymns to God. Disguised in pseudonyms like George Sand or George Eliot, a few of them have scribbled novels. But now it becomes apparent that female writers are legion and are writing with or without pen-names all manner of fantastic letters...
...program follows: Psalm 19 Marcello Chorale Prelude--"O man, bewail thine awful sin" Bach Professor Davison God is my Shepherd Dvorak I will sing thee songs of gladness Dvorak Miss Loring Prelude and Fugue in G major Bach Professor Davison Du bist die Ruh Schubert Wie Melodien ziehy es Brahms Miss Loring Sketch Schumann Chorale in T minor Franck...