Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. August Thyssen, 86, patriarch of Ruhr industrial barons, contemporary of the late Hugo Stinnes and the late Alfred Krupp, self-made amasser of $100,000,000; at his castle, Lindsborg, near Muehlheim...
Other selections which were recited and which won prizes were "Caught in the Quicksands" by Victor Hugo, and "A Return in Defeat" by Henry W. Grady...
...ready to devote $17,000 a year "or more" to this publication, with the condition that the founders raise an additional $10,000 a year. And what will this magazine be called? The New Masses, said the editors. And who are the editors? Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman, James Rorty, Hugo Gellert and John Sloan, said the backers. And what will they write about? This question the editors and backers answered in chorus in a flamboyant bulletin entitled: OUR THEMES...
...Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building, tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, by the Lenox String Quartet of New York. Wolfe Wolfinsohn will play first violin, Edwin Ideler second violin, Herbert Borookin viola, and Emmeran Stoeber, 'cello. The quartet will play Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, no 4; Hugo Wolf's Serenade and Brahm's Quartet, Opus 51, No. 1, in C Minor...
...Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze at them were told first the fantastic plot of his life, which...