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...religious fervor with syrup of ballet: it caused terrific applause. Saint Francis had the advantage of a score by famed self-exiled German "Kulturbolschewist" Paul Hindemith (TIME, March 14), which proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed a big bad wolf, ardently embraced his very tangible ideal, and ended by miming a fervent hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet Russe | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...daily. 158,-544 Sunday) joined the roster of 96 U. S. dailies more than 100 years old. A 274-page edition, a deal of civic celebration marked the stanch old journal's centennial. Once suspended by Union General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler, the Picayune was edited in its palmiest post-Reconstruction days by Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson, who married the paper's publisher and then its business manager when he died. In 1914, the Picayune swallowed the Times-Democrat. The Times-Picayune, whose last great battle was with Huey Long, easily dominates the New Orleans advertising market, owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Picayune 100 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...first instance you have put yourself on a level with the old Police Gazette in its palmiest days and in the second you have rivaled scandal-mongering old Town Topics when it was out looking for people to blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was culture's palmiest day," challenged Gilbert, and the Vagabond took up the gauntlet. It was first in the grotto at Twickenham that he sought the substance of culture, but a high-pitched voice reciting from a rapt bevy of matrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/6/1933 | See Source »

...Johns Hopkins University, no professor enjoys greater prestige than Dr. John Holladay Latane, U. S. history man. At a Smith rally, a fortnight ago, Dr. Latane said: "Speaking as a historian, I say very seriously that it is my opinion that the Society of Jesus*in the palmiest days of its history never held a nation in so firm a grasp as the 'political parsons' of certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Charlottesville | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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