Word: midi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rochester, the Philharmonic Orchestra gave its opening concert. At just the appointed time Conductor Eugene Goossens, trimmest of all conductors, sent floating through the spaces of the Eastman Theatre the honest harmonies of Weber's Oberon Overture, the enchanted woods of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi, Respighi's Concerto Gregoriano, new to Rochester, stately, breathing the musty grandeur of old cathedrals and shufffling monks. Rochester applauded it courteously. Rochester saved its loudest approval for Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, after its awful pessimism had finally been led by the cellos and the big basses into a despair...
...landscapes takes you back to the best days of the Barbizon school. All three are members of the Legion d'Honneur; all three have contributed to the spring salon since the century turned, and longer. Painter Harrison this year hung four canvases- "La Marne," "Solitudes," "Images," "Le Midi" (all to be pronounced as they were painted, Frenchwise, exquisitely...
Ferdinand Foch, like his soldier colleagues Marshal Joffre and General Castelnau, is from the Midi (South--not to be confused with the feminine midinette). It was at Tarbes in Gascony, under the shade of the Pyrenees, at 10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 2, 1851, that the future generalissimo of the Entente Armies was born. It was two months before Prince Louis Napoleon made his famed coup d'etat...
...Annunzio, Italian poet, starring Ida Rubenstein, famed dancer, staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Salome, Orientale (Pavlowa ballet), Cleopatra and Scheherezade...
Route.-Taking the direct route from Friedrichchafen, the big ship passed over the French Midi, over Bordeaux, along the Spanish coast of the Bay of Biscay, and out to the Azores Islands. Thence she was to have flown to Bermuda and thence west-by-south to Lakehurst. A "local tornado" encountered an hour west of the Azores forced her to slow down to 25 m. p. h., however, and when the storm had passed, she veered northwest direct for Manhattan, a missing engine tuned in again to help hit up her pace...