Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other "native" operas had come through competition for prizes, forced hot-house flowers, that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...granddaughter of Tribune-founder Joseph Medill, married first one Count Gizycki. Her present husband was onetime general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board and is now a member of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy, Manhattan corporation lawyers. She recently wrote a book, Glass Houses, about Washington Society and Senators ("Red Hot Togas," said critics...
Crawford Allen, Mississippi Negro, lay sick abed in his shanty just across the Louisiana line. It was night and his wife Anna slept deeply beside him. Nearby slept his three pickaninnies, Teelie, Lewis, Myra. None of the Aliens had any clothes on; it was August, hot...
...Hot afternoons have been in old Colorado?afternoons saturated with the eloquence of the Denver Post, loudest colloquial newspaper in North America. But better than hot air is gas?the kind that runs automobiles. That was what was on tap, free, last week in Denver...
...flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house plant which, luxuriating in the warmth and humus of countries long inhabited, would perish in the rigers of a "wilderness." His name is Ezra Pound.* When first he appeared in London, a most erratic youth much given to "raw silk of good color," violent tennis and fencing, more violent language...