Word: loree
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...Singing. Said he: "An odd fact it is that, though there are in the U. S. 250,000 vocal students and 50,000 professional singers, no special publication has ever been devoted to their interests. I have engaged contributing editors to write about operas, concerts, oratorios, folk lore, language study, repertoire...
...spot. Under the flooding, 30,000 people stood for an hour and a half, stood while their umbrellas leaked and the pure water from Heaven dripped down the backs of their necks?stood and listened to a wizard whose wizardy, like all magic of slight and faery lore, was supposed long since to have vanished. What...
...including an CEdipus twist where the high-strung heroine and her father, not knowing their relationship, nearly wed, is pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...
Except for Mr. Dresser's provocative paper on Birth Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...
Professor Walz, who has studied at the University of Berlin, took his A. B. degree at Northwestern University in 1892 and his Ph.D. five years later at Harvard. A member of the Modern Language Association of America and of the Folk Lore Society, he is known as an author for his numerous contributions to philological journals...