Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Parliament bandied witticisms, almost forgetting there was a war in Europe, British journals grew increasingly bitter. They wanted more newsmen, fewer admirals in the Ministry. Said the Yorkshire Post: "We do not know who conceived the Ministry of Information but it was strangled in red tape at birth." The...
Even Cincinnati's dog-collared dowagers -to whom Reds usually meant Bolsheviks, flies pests and bunting something one wrapped a baby in-could reel off the minutest details of the Reds' harrowing experiences the past month: a robust team with a fielding average of .975 (best in the...
Aside from his Valse Triste and his ringing tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius' most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela was originally part of a suite of four tone-poems illustrating the Finnish national epic, the...
Scene of much happy bustling last week was the old brownstone mansion on sedate James Street that houses the Syracuse (N. Y.) Museum of Fine Arts. Cause: the assembling, judging and opening of the eighth annual National Ceramic Exhibition. For ceramists, the occasion was excuse for a jolly get-together...
Prime mover of the National Ceramic Exhibition is tall, energetic, sparkling-eyed Anna Wetherill Olmsted, director of the Syracuse museum. She started the show in 1932 as a memorial to Syracuse's ate gifted Adelaide Alsop Robineau, pioneer U. S. ceramist. On a shoestring budget Miss Olmsted has brought...