Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening as is the Vagabond's wont, he will go to the theatre--the usual Saturday function goes without saying. Just where he will go is a question, one which he can never decide until about 7.45 o'clock in the evening when the inexorable flying moment says "choose this--or this." Of the various choices "The Vagabond King" if he hadn't seen it already would present strong attractions--there is a slight discrepancy here for the perspicacious to pick out--and the same applies to "The Cocoanuts...
...Russia, and his belief that the Soviet system i stamping out all production of every kind in that unfortunate country, art and particularly dramatic art will out; and not only that, but it seems to be producing in three distinct branches some of the most distinctive work of the moment...
...London, all the symphonies, chamber music compositions, his only opera Fidelio, were offered. In Boston, at the exact moment of his death, the chimes of Tufts college rang the choral melody of the Ninth Symphony, while chapels, concert halls and symphony orchestras responded with other Beethoven music. In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, New Orleans, Portland, it was the same. The next day, Sunday, churches of all sects, worshiped in his music. Perhaps the comedy was finished, for every tribute grand enough to be fitting the memory Ludwig van Beethoven consisted of the music created...
...study the ancestors of these Western Negroes. ... I confess I have been rather shocked at some things I have seen in your theatres and cinemas. In An American Tragedy and even in What Price Glory there is a literal, physical portrayal of desire which would not for a moment be tolerated in Paris. It is curious in a country once called puritanical...
...article, "La Canal du Nicaragua ot La Strategie Americaine" in the "Revue des Deux Mondes", March 15, he traces point by point the true basis for the administration's disarmament proposals. They were not put forth, it appears, to throw the public scent off Central America nor in a moment of misdirected pacifist feeling...