Word: messer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains collecting the songs of the mountaineers...
...winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap. The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, with their wilful, slow-witted heroes (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin), and their clever, conniving villains (Beck-messer, Mime, Alberich), are far & away Manhattan's favorite operas...
Tonight's speakers and their selections are: Howard L. Blackwell Jr. '39, of Cambridge, Mass., excerpt from "Messer Marco Polo," by Donn Byrne; Tucker Dean '37, of Chicago, Ill., "The Committee for Industrial Organization: A Challenge to the campus," by John L. Lewis; Edward J. Duggan '37, of Chelsea, Mass., "The supreme Judicial Tribunal," by wil- liam E. Borah; Arthur Ellison '37, of Chelsea, Mass., excerpt from "The Selective Principle in Education," by James B. Conant; Norman E. Hunt '38, of Brookline, Mass., "The Bombardment," by Amy Lowell; Wiley E. Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Ia., "Daniel O'Connell," by Wendell...
...proud of being a self-made man, who had been schooled intermittently in his youth, braiding straw in his father's farmhouse in Franklin, Mass, to earn his books, working his way through Brown University and Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. In 1832, when his wife Charlotte Messer, daughter of Brown's president, had died, Lawyer Mann's hair supposedly turned white in a single night and he became more reclusive and contemplative than ever...
Should Professor Baxter receive the same kind of jeers for his discussion of the Civil War, Messer Hearst and his ilk would probably demand at least the recall of our ambassador. Yet the two cases have this much in common--they are both attempts to increase international understanding...