Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georges Goyon of the Havas News Agency through the knee, and a Miss Petra Hoevig, Red Cross nurse serving in the Adventist hospital, broke her leg jumping into a trench for safety. They were rushed to Addis Ababa by plane. Typical of the reaction of newshawks was that of Herald Tribune Correspondent Linton Wells. For weeks he has chafed publicly at the dirt and discomfort of the country, the surliness of minor Ethiopian officials. Yet no sooner had his ears stopped ringing from the bombing raid than he rushed to his typewriter to start his daily dispatch thus: "I witnessed...
...been able to write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced it "involved trash," while Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune went the whole hog in the other direction by saying: "The layman, if he can accustom himself to a doubtless indisposing idiom, will find in it a lacerating beauty, a piercing expressiveness often overwhelming which reveals Berg for what he is: a poet, a man of tormenting sensibility...
...shall commemorate are to be our brethren, united by that bond of fraternity whose mystic cords draw together all who have drunk at this fountain. Their voices as our own, when they meet and part, will utter their salutation to our beloved university, "Salve, magna Parens!" The Boston Herald...
...examination room. Actors and singers are kicked before important first nights.* The kicks on the Gripsholm last week brought luck indeed to Mme Wettergren, boosted her straight into headlines. The Post ran her picture with a front-page story. Pictures were also in the American, the News, the Herald Tribune, stories in the Sun, the World-Telegram, the Journal. The fatherly New York Times merely noted that Mme Wettergren had arrived, quoted Edward Johnson, new manager of the Metropolitan, to the effect that Mme Wettergren was probably the most important European singer to make a U. S. debut this season...
This statement was provoked by a letter sent to the Boston Herald, by David Moore '36, asking the question, "What is a Harvard gentleman?" The Bulletin discarded the Herald's answer that the Harvard gentleman is the man whose gentlemanly qualities "are so unadvertised they become apparent only when they are tested" as being altogether too mild. They went searching for a definition that would leave to the Harvard man his long-cherished position as a general target for all foes...