Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many scare-stories of revolts in the Ukraine have come of late from neighboring Rumanian sources that last week U. S. staff correspondents were despatched to learn the truth. These gentry, having prowled gingerly up and down the Rumanian side of the Russo-Rumanian frontier, and having interviewed numerous escaped Russians, reported with conviction that...
Instead of having the entire fall to prepare for an innovation so directly dependent on its cooperation, the Library has been obliged to make preparation in a matter of days. The nuisance has been passed on to the student, who cannot learn what books he will be obliged to buy until he is told what books the Library will be able to supply...
...cover, in the space of half a year, all of art from 300 A. D. to the present. Why this course is not expanded to occupy a full year is just one of those inexplicable mysteries. As a result, however, of its present conduct, the student is forced to learn a very large number of slides in a comparatively short time--and hence gets merely a bird's eye view...
...sensation at the Berlin Imperia, Opera was MISS GERALDINE FARRAR AUS NEW YORK. She began as Marguerite in Faust, doing the unheard of thing, singing in Italian in a Berlin house, holding a contract saying that she need not sing in German until she had had time to learn the language. She was 19, sparkling, as she is today. The Kaiser was interested; so was the Crown Prince. The Hofmarshall brought her an invitation to appear at the Palace one night. She must wear black or lavender and gloves, for the court was in mourning. But Die Farrar never wore...
...their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman, makes him a weak man, a pathetic youth unable to learn how to live, "a bad poet and a bad ruler." Whether this is what Nero was in truth, no man can say. But his character, so presented, has the truth of fiction, the illusion of reality. The book reaches for the atmosphere of imperial Rome and achieves it, presenting...