Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philharmonic Orchestra, with its second program, fitted an exquisite bit into its season's mosaic. Mme. Wanda Landowska was soloist, played to Josef Willem Mengelberg's accompaniment the Mazort Concerto in E flat, the Finale of his Harpsichord Concerto in D. Critics sat enthralled, spent their dearest words, said nothing worthy of so unique an artist...
...dining-rooms and salons of the Alfonso XIII are in the rich 17th Century Spanish style, hung with priceless Goya tapestries. Her promenade is finished in arabesques and tiled with Moorish mosaic recalling the Alhambra...
...bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...
...rational, hygienic Mosaic dietary laws are catalogued in Deuteronomy 14, which specifies that the flesh of only cloven-footed beats that chew their cud may be eaten-cattle, deer, etc. Cloven-footed hares and swine do not chew their cuds and are interdicted...
...florid gobs. Author Cohen, to whom high praise is due for a tremendous task well tried, betrays his inexperience chiefly by distrusting his ability to write with care as well as power. All these shortcomings notwithstanding, U. S. fiction has a new dynasty: the Pardways. Author Cohen is a Mosaic young man, cast on a large frame, fleshy but solid, slow-spoken, positive. He stayed at the University of Chicago only a few weeks, "because I saw it was not the place for me. I had to learn things for myself- feel 'em out." He did some news- gathering...