Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticized First Symphony of Gustav Mahler will be played at this week's symphony concerts for the first time in many years, Dmitri Mitropoulos, the guest conductor, apparently considering it worthy of a new hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting...
...post of Poet Laureate. In 1930, Mr. Kipling was in Bermuda when the death of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges occurred. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. Kipling's cousin, had presented him to King George at a levee; the King and Queen had once invited him to be their guest at Balmoral; and each year he received a crisp Buckingham Palace invitation to the Royal Garden Party. Therefore in Bermuda in 1930 the news that King George had appointed John Maseneld to be Poet Laureate smote hard. Exclaimed Rudyard Kipling: "Writing is an awful trade-I mean...
...Widener for the rest of the day where the air was very stale. Thence as guest to Lowell House and made very merry, and by and by up the River...
...same time, John W. Boldyreff, Assistant in Sociology and likewise a vacation guest at the Roosevelt household, mildly lamented the passing of what he called "a blunder in the right direction...
...spend the night at the White House when he is in town. Mr. Smith, a good tactician, politely excused himself. When the Press noted this byplay, a spokesman for the President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited to pass either a night or a week-end there. But he never saw fit to accept even one of these invitations...