Word: musee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time confronted by a formidably articulate opposition. Among U. S. journalists, no more facile penman exists than The New Yorker's famed E. (for Elwyn) B. (for Brooks) White. Grave, smallish Writer White, whose devotees consider him the nation's ablest humorist, is generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier...
Sailors will Bringle little goat to Board Crimson on Soldiers Field, but while honorable animal is Kevorkian around, Harlow's team will be Blankinship men. Only one Player on gobs' team, and he is substitute, so Navy will see Spector when Oakes Fleps passes to a Muse Crimson stands. Harvard linemen not Green; each one can stand Gaffney can dish it out. Odds are on Navy, but that is all Blaha, so take Page from Huey and faites vos jeux. But sailors will go to town in evening when is question of Boston Daughters, not can she, but Wilsie...
...concerts of its regular series in Symphony Hall on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. Dr. Koussevitsky is to conduct the first Boston performance of the orchestral suite from Stravinsky's ballet, "Le Baiser de la Fee", which was written in 1928. The ballet bears the subtitle, "Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky", and makes free use of that composer's themes. It seems rather incongruous that the neo-classic Stravinsky and the romantic Tchaikovsky should be thus combined, especially since the former has written: "I always aim at straight forward expression in its simplest form. I have...
21st.--Ope'd my eyes very betimes, but lay long a humming some Oriental tune, yet I know not where I got it; thence, soft sun in my face, to muse on this fine tribute to morning and how rich are its lines...
Thence, back to the Tower and to muse awhile in the full moonlight: Was it not Anatole France who said; Be happy. We learn only as we amuse ourselves? So I with my gramaphone to get wise and doze myself to sleep...