Word: puss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a curled lip, Nicolo Machiavelli, watched the puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected...
Judith had its premiere in Chicago last week. Through many an irritating postponement the public had waited anxiously. Mary Garden had promised an opera that would make her Salome look like puss-in-the-corner. As Judith, the Biblical girl,* Miss Garden sang magnificently. The critics however, did not share her enthusiasm for the opera or for Arthur Honegger's music. It tended to leap from vigorous stimulation into dissonance-reflecting the modernistic trend...
...feline between them; Rembrandt represents The Holy Family itself "... With Cat"; there is also the famed cat of Visscher (1629-62), earliest of master line engravers, copies of which are now rare indeed. The prints used for Godey's Lady's Book reveal how widespread was puss's honored position in 19th Century society. The best ladies were seldom seen without a cat or cats, which were, in fact, so numerous that children fell over them in parlors...
...Columbus, Ohio, one Juanita Murray posed for news photographers with her cat, Puss-Puss, who, since adoption six years ago, has brought forth 171 kittens, which Juanita gave as pets to small neighbors. Columbus cat experts pronounced Puss-Puss the local champion feline genitrix; declared the previous record was 137, held by a cat at Ohio State University...
Overture to "Pique, Dame"Suppe Waltz. "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Salut d'Amour Elgar Fantasia, "The Valkyrie" Wagner Suite, "Sleeping Beauty", Tchaikovsky a. Introduction. The Fairy of the Lilacs b. Puss in Boots and the White Cat c. Valse Violin Solo a. Lotus Land Scott-Kreisler b. Rondo Mozart-Kriesler (Julin Theodorowiez) Bolero Moszkovski Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius Ballet Music from "The Cid" Massenet a. Castillane b. Andalouse c. Aragonaise Serenade, "Los Millions d'Arlequin Drigo Third Slavonic Dance Dvorak