Word: patricians
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...line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from a few docks myself"; when asked if he knows the King's English, he replies that so was the Prince of Wales. There is a Victor Herbert waltz; Dorothy McNulty dances with graceful velocity; Miss Joyce Barbour contributes a patrician presence; Vannessi, the stupidest-looking beautiful woman on the U. S. stage, rolls her eyes...
...Harvard's specialty, the nouveau riche Business School can no longer contend with the patrician. Law School for this honor. It belongs to neither of them. Now that the fact is established, it seems strange no one had thought of Landscape Architecture before. Bald headed barbers have always been the leading authorities on how to keep the chevelure long and dlustrous. In like manner bachelors and spinsters are the leading lights upon the care and feeding of infants. So too, the School, or Department, or Course--whichever it is--of Landscape Architecture is Harvard's specialty, as the beauty...
Honorable Myron T. Herrick, a fine patrician head; John D. Rockefeller, another; also many severe and solemn babies in red French stone line the walls of the gallery of Messrs. Scott and Fowles...
...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...
...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...