Word: loveliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conductor Rodzinski's début concert was the loudest if not the loveliest that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
...away plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each way, that there were 200 girls on the other plantation, he said: "Well, boss, I'll go. But it seems a mighty fur piece for just a few days' work." Carmer calls Mobile "loveliest ... gayest of American cities," thinks its charm has been less commercialized than New Orleans'. He says not a word about its legendary high-flying eagles...
...loveliest biological achievement...
...there is one point on which Professor Morison must employ his most cautious tread. One of the loveliest sages of modern Harvard is that involving the selection of the Lowell House coat of arms, and Mr. Coolidge's perturbation when he was informed that his House sailed beneath a spinster's colors. Perhaps this is not so. But Professor Morison, whatever he may wreak upon windows or upon letterheads, ought not to profane it. Clearly it has that large glamor of the grotesque which comes only too infrequently and which is over to be cherished...
...draftsmen, many of whom had been out of work for months. Many of these men were Beaux Arts men-some of them Paris Prize men. They worked creatively and happily, for a small daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever given in Chicago, one, we are told (not to be comparative but to give a stamp of excellence) that equalled any Beaux Arts Ball ever given in New York in the heyday of lavish prosperity...