Word: nooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hymn to Indra, from the Rig-Veda Holst Love Songs Brahms Seat thyself, my dearest heart, not so close to me! A tremor's in the branches. Nightingale, thy sweetest song sounds when night is darkling. From you hills the torrent speeds, and the rain ne'er ceases. Secret nook in shady spot mong the waving grasses Drake's Drum Coleridge-Tayler The Glee Club Symphonic Poem, "Danse Macabre" Saint-Saens Volga Bargemen's Song Arranged by Jacchia March, "Veritas" Densmore The Orchestra
...wantonness beguiles from every nook...
...Folk Songs: The Galway Piper Gute Nacht Reaper's Song Turn Ye to Me (Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook in Shady Spot Then Round about the Starry Throne, from "Samson" Handed
...discreet and inaccessible nook of Hyde Park, London, Premier Stanley Baldwin unveiled, last week, a memorial to Naturalist W. H. Hudson by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. As the sheet that swaddled the work was drawn aside, a murmer of horror went up from the onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson...
...characteristic. There is the club member who belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local accent...