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Word: pell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nowhere to go. Chance led her to a flashy, disreputable pub where her sister Tamar was mistress. Tamar had long ago gone to the bad. was now comfortably married, well-off, happy. Susan swallowed her pride, rested and revived her soul. Her ambition stirred again when rich, pious David Pell fell in love with her. She persuaded him to start a new sect, to found a religious community in the country with herself as head priestess. When her husband Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan's faith was once more made firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old time Religion | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Robert T. Pell, young and no member of the U. S. Foreign Service, is said to be privately employed by Ambassador Walter E. Edge to whom he is personal private secretary. Throughout the week Personal Private Secretary Pell played important intermediary roles, chiefly the Great Interpreter. So able was his work that French statesmen called in no French interpreter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINEUPS FOR TODAY'S REGATTA | 5/2/1931 | See Source »

...light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress man Herbert C. Pell. In Britain he is a member of the London County Council and chairman of the Committee of the Royal Society of Arts for the Preservation of Ancient Cottages. The Bossoms may plant Genesis, obviously unsuitable for an Ancient Cottage, in their own garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genesis to Bossoms | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...which the Germans call sprechstimme. But behind his strict design and his many novel effects (in one scene he introduces an accordion, harmonica and guitar), there is the same savage pity that Büchner had for his soldier. One European critic has called Wozzeck the greatest opera since Pellèas et Mèlisande. Stokowski must also be impressed, for his avidity for perfection appears to be even greater than usual. He is using his own 100-piece Philadelphia Orchestra, sets by Robert Edmond Jones and, thanks to Mrs. Bok's open purse, has already had well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wozzeck in Philadelphia | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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