Word: persian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it had ever seen. Kreutzberg and Georgi were on the crest of the wave from the moment he did his masterly "Revolte". And they stayed there for the rest of the program, rising to their greatest heights in a Debussy interpretation, "Romantic Scene", "Three Mad Figures", "Persian Song" and "Russian Dance...
...Chicago, one David Petros, Persian frankfurter vendor, went to the police station, moaned through an interpreter that his equipment had been stolen...
...program of tonight's concert, which is free and open to the public, follows: Quartet in G. Major, Op. 77, No. 1 Haydn Berceuse pour un Enfant Malade Schelling Gazal (Persian Melody) Schelling Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 Brahms
...League," I find an account of His Excellency Ali Khan Foroughi. Mr. Editor, I have the pleasure to notify your most mistaken honor (!) that Mr. Foroughi is not a prince; he is a world figure today, but he is not a prince. As a leader of the Persian nationalists, we glorify in him. much more so because, he has risen to an international figure, not with a royal ancestry but rather with ancestors who were commoners and he is a commoner today; but with national and international positions that are too exalted to be reached by mere Kings and Princes...
Secondly, Mr. Editor, I do not see any reason for a sound-minded editor to play with the personalities and looks of other people. If Mr. Foroughi has a bushy black beard, it is none of your confounded business. Did I or any other Persian ever tell you that you look like a monkey; no, because we do not care how you look. Did we ever say that your ex-president has a hooklike nose, or that your ambassador to Great Britain is usually conspicuous by his nose? No, that is none of our business; these matters though small...