Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will pay part of this, not all!" cried Mme Vintila Bratianu, flashing eyed, when a representative of Rumania's National Peasant Party Cabinet presented her last week with a bill for 2,000,000 lei covering her late, great husband's State Funeral (TIME...
...peasant, and Professor Madgearu is of the Peasant Party, 14,000 lei is a lot of money...
...tunes which accompanied these goings-on were pleasant but not particularly distinguished. Composer Franz von Suppe (Poet and Peasant Overture) wrote them for Boccaccio, a cluttered comic piece based on the Italian storyteller's love for Fiammetta, bastard daughter of the Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such...
...land until Ion Bratianu's death (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). His brother, Vintila, every inch a Bratianu in height, broad frame and commanding mien, had not the necessary political dexterity to rule. Though Vintila became Prime Minister, the great Dynasty of Bratianu had already ended, and a peaceful peasant revolt toppled him from power (TIME, Nov. 12, 1928). Retainers found the handsome but embittered man lying on a bench in the park of his estate. A stroke had completely paralyzed his left side. He died at 9:30 p. m. In life he had one ruling passion: exclusion...
Karl Arthur was a bright young man and should have been a credit to the ministry, but he was headstrong and impulsive, and time and again mistook fanatical hunches for divine inspiration. To mortify his pride (and incidentally punish Charlotte) he married Anna, who was beautiful, but only a peasant peddler-girl. Anna was pleased as punch, and quite ready to love her handsome husband, but he wanted them to live like brother & sister. She got over that fence all right, but when she discovered Karl Arthur's platonic friendship with the organist's wife, shy Thea, Anna...