Word: musee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muse upon the rot they print...
This is the day of American success in Europe. Readers may have noted several recent instances of American artists doing well abroad. Musical art on the older continent has run down disastrously. In Central Europe, favorite field of the muse, all singers and musicians who are so fortunate as to be able to do so take themselves to countries with decent exchange rates-above all to the golden U. S. Spain and South America get their share of them, too. Thus the best talents in Germany and Austria are not to be heard in their native lands, and in France...
...pair of shears and committed suicide by leaping out of the window. The event caused little stir.. Mrs. Holly and Christopher Lane were married and soon departed to California, with Amy May, Annabelle Lee (re-eyed) and her new husband, Mr. Romeo, leaving only Papa Jonas to muse philosophically on the fate of Mr. Aristotle, thus: "He did not move as I meant him to and he ended badly . . . yet he knew what it was to suffer and to love. I envy him his boldness, for it was not expected...
...Portrait of Lady Diana Crosbie, daughter of Lord George Sackville, one of Sir Joshua's greatest full-length portraits, comparable with the famous Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (owned by Henry Huntington) and Nelly O'Brien (in the Wallace Collection, London). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1779, and depicts Lady Crosbie, then but 21 years old, charmingly posed on a lawn, elaborately gowned and coifed, with a landscape background...
...shall not regret the passing of the Lexington Avenue Opera House as a temple of the muse. Its acoustics were bad; the orchestra sounded overloud and seemed to be almost a veil between the singers and the audience. Furthermore, it was almost as bad as trying to make your way to a Yale-Harvard football match to get to the entrance of the house. The street cars ran ceaselessly past the front, and there was usually a great jam of automobiles, pedestrians. And once you had got in it was equally difficult to get away...