Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave a concert. Leopold Stokowski, a detached and patrician figure with a perfect back, lifted his eyebrows at the audience, his baton at the orchestra. Unrivaled is the popularity of the Philadelphia Orchestra this year; unapproached the position of Conductor Stokowski. Novelty of this concert was the playing, for the first time in the U. S., of a violin concerto by Karol von Szymanowski which the composer dedicated to "mon ami," Violinist Paul Kochanski. Ami Kochanski was there himself, chin on instrument, to play the solo part...
Then Alan, 21 years old, came back to Findellen, matured, attractive, humorous but with all the unbalanced egotism of his childhood. With him came Bayard Van Schoeck, friendly patrician. Alan's reawakened passion frightened Julie. She found protection in the steady strength of Van Schoeck. The climax came in a meeting between Alan and her father. Sparks flew. The old man hit the boy with her parasol, then collapsed under stress of emotion...
...opening of the second week at the Metropolitan was no less a triumph for Maria Jeritza, Lohenarin her medium. Other features of the second lap of the season in that temple of patrician appreciation were Andrea Chenier and The Tales of Hoffmann (revival)-well-tried pieces both...
...Boston aristocracy." That caste has so little breathing since and elbow room in a Celtic Jewish-Italian-Greek town that the sympathetic sociologists may deem it worthier of encouragement than of dispraise; but youth is intolerant. Our satirist seeks to show, or "show up," the life of a youthful patrician from birth to Class...
...spectacle of the patrician turned for the moment into the beggar will be democratically moving, and should loosen many wallets. When the Seniors have removed themselves from the steps of Widener and have spread their traditional sheet to receive what manna may fall, all Freshmen, one hopes, will remember the honor of their class and rise to the spirit of the day with many clinking shekels. "And cursed be he who first cries 'Hold, enough...