Word: gracefully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evening dinner in the Harvard Union at which Professor R. P. Boas '17 of Mount Holyoke College will be toast-master, the speakers will be Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling of Smith College, who will talk on "Imagination In and Out of School", Professor S. F. Damon '14 of Brown University, who will discuss "Unknown American Literature", and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '12, who will discuss some phase of his grandfather's work...
...guests may mingle, talk, admire the gilded Steinway piano where a Miss Grace Goodhue, tourist, tinkled roguishly one day when she could never have dreamed of becoming First Lady...
Mozart's Haffner Symphony was first - Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg. Mozart wrote it in less than a fortnight, when he was 26. Toscanini himself lost 35 of his 61 years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part...
Came a letter addressed to Elphege Daignault: ". . . the Sacred Congregation of the Council has ordered me to notify you that . . . you have incurred the penalty of excommunication. ... In communicating this to you I pray that, by the Grace of God, you may realize the gravity of your fault, and hasten to liberate yourself from the penalty which it has brought upon you. "Yours very sincerely, "P. Fumasoni-Biondi." Attorney Daignault became an outcast from his Church. To get reinstated he had humbly, sincerely to repent. Last week in Rhode Island they whispered that Dainault had at last repented, begged forgiveness...
...took pictures, thousands of them. He had always believed that photography was a medium of art which could be as sensitive, as interpretative as painting, etching or engraving. Out of the confused mass of forms in the visible world he selected serene or startling shapes and contours, the tense grace of sewing fingers, the slopes and rotundities of the nude. These he rendered with the infinite photographic spectrum, ranging from dead white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression of a short-skirted girl...