Word: isadora
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...former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan, dancer: "I denied a report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals to descend to the point of even considering worldly political differences!' " Governor General Leonard Wood...
...Isadora Duncan: "The United States Department of Labor decided that I am not an American citizen because I married a Russian prior to the Woman's Separate Citizenship Law. That is a mild way of saying that I am likely to be prevented from landing as an undesirable alien, if ever I try to return to America. 1 should worry...
...first symptom was Miss Isadora Duncan. Her husband was a Russian poet, and she herself of doubtful sentiments: wherefore she was detained at Ellis Island, on whispered rumor that she came not altogether for art's sake. However innocent her previous color, such a reception could have only one effect, and her Boston exhibition was to be expected. But, Cincinnati, fore-warned, was spared from her baleful influence. Madame Gadski followed her; but the American Legion was awake to its duty. "Music hath charms", they remembered, and decided that her voice should be no incantation, like the Lorelei...
...This is red; that is what I am," said Isadora Duncan; whipping a red scarf from her body and waving it bolshevikily. If by her dancing Saturday at Symphony Hall she meant to confirm this statement, one should concede her any tinge of red she wished. She saw red, surely, she looked pink, and she acted scarlet...
...what was the purpose of Isadora, or rather Mrs. Serge Yessinin the bride, in performing as she did? Did she, by the scantiness of her costume, wish to excite our sympathy for the starving Russians, as scantily clad? Was she demonstrating some orgiatic dance of the Slava, newly taught her by her latest husband? Or was she trying to get the audience in such a state of frenzied enthusiasm that when she came to her climactic outburst it would dash madly to the stage and with her as leader straightway set up a soviet in America? If she were...