Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations a righteous world forum in which minor nations can successfully seek redress against encroachment by the Great Powers...
...knack of creating characters (like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli and Author Giuseppe Ungaretti, both Italians of note. They desired to adjust a minor point of honor by the duello. But a Fascist decree forbade. What should they do? Philosopher-dramatist Pirandello cogitated, frowned, beamed at last upon his honorably quarrelsome friends, invited them to a garden party, suggested that they bring swords. . . . At the garden party last week, Signor Pirandello announced that to divert...
...collar, loose of tie-seemingly no great one. Yet at Max Reinhardt's beck there had come to Salzburg not only a world of celebrities but the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Male Choral Society, the famed Oscar Ziegler Rose Quartet, and a trainload of minor operatic and dramatic stars, stage hands, electricians, scene painters. A majority of these normally well paid minions of Art rendered notable homage to Max Reinhardt's genius of appearing gratis at the operas, concerts, recitals of his festival. Not only was Everyman played tut Turandot and Ariadne were sung. The towseled German...
George Inness Jr. died last week in Cragsmoor, N. Y. He was a competent minor painter with a talent for controversial subjects. Born in Paris in 1854, he studied in Rome and Paris, was given a gold medal by the Salon of 1900, sold a bucolic canvas called Shepherd and Sheep to the Metropolitan. He signed his work "Inness Jr." Last year one of his pictures, The Only Hope, an elaborate cartoon of the world's return to Christ, set the New York Chamber of Commerce simmering. Chamberman Irving T. Bush wanted to send the picture on tour...
Nothing could have hindered Hero de Beaujolais' success, save the one thing that did, a woman. Mary Vanbrugh, U. S. A., came under his protection during a minor massacre that occurred just at a moment when he was supposed to keep alive himself at all costs. She refused to understand why Duty compelled him to leave the disturbed town, sacrifice his men and sneak down through the desert to see some powerful sheiks. He had to take her along. He fell in love with her. And then of course, when it was a question between her honor...