Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Realmleader, "I have more often than once expressed the wish and hope to come to equally good, hearty relations with all our neighbors. As an example, between Germany and France there can be no humanly thinkable cause for a quarrel. The German Government also has assured Belgium and Holland that it is ready to recognize and guarantee, at any time, these States as untouchable neutral territory...
...young Webster left the Conservatory to go on tour. Since then he has studied under Schnabel in Berlin, played triumphantly through France, England, Holland. Germany, Italy, Russia. Manhattanites first heard him two years ago when he made his debut with the Philharmonic under Werner Janssen. He has played also with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Richmond symphonies. Last month he played in the White House after the Cabinet dinner...
...newsorgan of most of these aristocrats is the New York Herald Tribune. Warmly it editorialized: "There is no country in Europe where Americans feel more thoroughly at home than Holland. . . . The language barrier matters little amid such hearty friendliness and genuineness of character. . . . This ["New York] was a Dutch colony before it was British. The Dutch strain is still strong in the city and the State. As for the pilgrims of New England, they found their first refuge in Holland, the land of toleration and it was from the port of the City of Leyden- where Princess Juliana studied...
...Robert, he made his debut in Vienna. At 14 he began to study composition under Modernist Arnold Schonberg. He met Violinist Adolf Busch when he was 17, thenceforth appeared with him in chamber music recitals. He began to strike out for himself as a soloist in England. France, Switzerland. Holland, Italy, Spain. Austria. In 1933 the German Government refused to let Serkin, a Jew, play at the Brahms Centennial in Ham burg (TIME, May 1, 1933). Violinist Busch, an Aryan, withdrew too, took the young pianist to live with him in Basle. Year and a half ago Serkin married Busch...
Dignity, truthfulness, and care make the Korda-Laughton "Rembrandt" an outstandingly fine movie, one as strong and vivid as the central character. Stooping to neither thrill nor pathos the picture sweeps majestically over seventeenth century Holland, silhouetting the rugged simplicity of the painter by contrasts with petty people about him. Historical accuracy and first-rate camera work show that Hollywood on the Thames is learning the American tricks...