Word: musee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barges indomitably on & on through 330 pages with never a trace of weariness on Author Revere's part. (He, too, lived a double life-with his book-while writing and rewriting it secretly at his New Jersey home, in spare moments over four years, giving up to his muse even golf at his beloved Baltusrol.) So heavily firm is his hand upon his characters that it is doubtful if critics who call his work crude will ruffle Author Revere's equanimity...
...Lake Forest home and a $557,500 mortgage on the mansion at No. 1000 Lake Shore Drive which was a wedding present from her father. Now, on sunny days, she sometimes leaves the Drake to cross the Drive and enter the garden of her closed home. She must often muse over the scenes behind the foreboding Romanesque walls of grey stone when she was Chicago's No. 1 Hostess, serving meals off gold plates, discussing her favorite subjects of art, astrology, numerology, "synthetic psychology." Mrs. McCormick is not left lonely in her adversity. Mr. Krenn is as constant...
...muse of intoxicating comedy holds sway at the Copley Theatre this week in the revival of Leslie Howard's farce "Murray Hill". Into the unruffiled Victorianism of the Tweedle family on Murray Hill bursts the rampant spirit of twentieth century gaiety in the form of a renegade relative of the Tweedles, Worthington Smythe. He appears on the morning of the funeral of a great aunt, who has bequeathed him $1000,000, highly intoxicated, and in a crumpled dress-suit. To save this youth from the wrath of his aunts, the family lawyer, Appleway, of "Appleway, Appleway, and Plunket", uses...
...upper reaches of Widener and left to blush unseen in the sterile atmosphere of the special libraries, the Poetry Room has failed to fulfill its high promise. Unfortunately to the difficulties of its location have been added other obstacles which discourage the ordinary mortal in pursuit of his muse...
Open-air singing has an intangible charm not always accruing only to the singers themselves; the listeners, too, especially if the Muse be well represented by lier mortal enfulators, are pleasantly aware of an inner harmony with Nature, suggested, no doubt, by the vocal efforts of the performers...