Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Herald: "Here is a woman with emotions and with a soul ... a brilliant future"; as a performer she has never had the ecstatic devotion of multitudes, but has always found amply appreciative audiences in half the cities of the U. S. And, without doubt, she is intellectually the peer of any virtuoso...
...Brooklyn, one Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed...
...frills and furbelows will bedeck their billowing bosoms; no petticoats will swathe their fattish calves; no bushy beards will sway from their chubby chins. No more will they, wearing what-the-gentlemen-will-wear, rush into night clubs. No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips...
...before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance; Mozart, overture to The Marriage of Figaro; Haydn, andante from Surprise Symphony; Sullivan, excerpts from Pinafore; Schubert, Unfinished symphony; MacDowell, To a Water Lily; Tchaikovsky, Pathetic Symphony; Grieg, Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt; Suppe, Poet and Peasant Overture, Wagner march of the Knights from Parsifal; Liszt, Second Hungarian Rhapsody; Sibelius, Finlandia; Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz; Rossini, overture to William Tell; Rimsky-Korsakoff, Song of India; Rachmaninoff, C Sharp Minor Prelude; Handel, Largo; Rubinstein, Kammenoi Ostrow; Beethoven, overture to Egmont; Tchaikovsky, Slavic, March; Moszkowski, Serenade; Strauss, Egyptian March; Offenbach, Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman; Dvorak...