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...reader may also wonder why Poet Benét likes such stumbling-block words as: corsive, accipitrine. mort. On the whole he will probably find Rip Tide moving, though more pathetic than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel in Verse | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Composition led Violinist Loeffler to relinquish the routine of orchestra work 28 years ago. His lovely finespun Mort de Tintagiles had already started critics questioning whether, with such meticulous regard for line, he could rightly be classified with Impressionist Debussy. The sensuous Pagan Poem came soon after, inspired by the sorcerous incantations Virgil put in the mouth of a Thessalian girl to draw her truant lover home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loeffler's Birthday | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...dislike work and I work enormously." He has at present in preparation three novels, three plays, a book of short stories, a book of poems, a book of essays. Other books: La Nuit Kurde, Les Chasses de Renaut, Sur un Cargo, Cacaouettes et Bananes, Locomotives, Levy, Carnaval Est Mort, two plays: Dix Filles dans un Pre, Le Dernier Empereur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chip of the Old Balzac | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...mort! A mort! Death! Death!" screamed excited Belgians, ripe for a lynching. Soldiers with fixed bayonets hustled the would-be assassin away. Prince Umberto, without turning round continued the ceremony, laid a laurel wreath bound with the arms of Savoy on the Unknown Soldier's grave, then insisted on reviewing the guard of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Heir of Italy | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Financing. Emergency finance corporations are at work with mort- gage-holders and local banks to help farmers finance their 1928 crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flood Report | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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