Word: philipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before dawn in Elsinore, Denmark, where Hamlet saw his father's ghost, a young British newspaper correspondent excitedly climbed aboard a small tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
...Boston Herald of March 23, Mr. Philip Hale expends over five paragraphs, and much space in the Symphony program, in attempting to prove his contention that Beethoven's "Missa Solomnis" has little spiritual value after all. To Mr. Hale part of the Mass gives "an effect of infinite labor and vain endoavor and is not an uplifting of the hearer's soul." One almost expects him to say that the music might just as well have been written to the words of almost any Gerruan folk song...
...speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...
...Certain it is," declares Herr Ludwig, "that at 27 Prince Wilhelm lost his heart. ... [He had married at 22, took no mistresses.] Suppressed sentimentality needed a field for ardour, fancy yearned for an artistic friendship. . . . And he found it all in Count Philip Eulenburg, to whom he was most fervently attached. . . . Whether his nature was inherently incapable of devoted affection for a women ... he followed the fashion of his time and group, wherein there was an abundance of male friendships...
...poor, bin-burnt grain to make it seem like good grain. And they falsified their books to claim more grain sold than actually existed. This was reprehensible, decided Arbitrator Brown. The buyers had no warning to beware; should not have needed such warning. J. Ogden Armour and his nephews Philip D. Armour and Lester Armour will have to pay over this money, for, although they knew nothing of their nefarious employes' doings they are The Armour Grain Co. But in the present case, although they must pay over $3,000,000 to the Farmers' Co-operative Grain Marketing...