Word: refered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer you to the King's record in Rumania? Founder of the Boy Scout movement, Institute for Physical Education, Federation of Sports, Royal Cultural Foundation, new Rumanian Youth Movement (0. E. T. R.), printing shop for popular educational books, builder of churches, patron of art and music, silent and generous contributor to all charities, and above all a devoted father to an only...
Every Harvard student, as well as all who have lived under the shadow of Harvard and its traditions for the past 40 years, must appreciate your delightful sketch of "Kitty" [TIME, Feb. 17]. You refer in this article to his supreme contempt for all proponents of the Baconian theory. This I well know to be true...
According to Dr. Hsiung, Lady Precious Stream is a play of some antiquity. Chinese actors refer to the whole legend as "The Eight Acts about the Wang Family." Fragments of the third and fourth acts, explains Dr. Hsiung, are often presented on the Chinese stage when the bill wants a touch of humor. Two scenes of the second act, on the other hand, are used "for a program which we did not wish to become too hilarious." Occidentals are likely to find that Lady Precious Stream is, in its own way, fairly hilarious all the way through...
...author writes that the radical-socialist party" is further on the conservative side than the French Socialists", but neither is on the conservative side. They are both avances--which I shall translate by radical--and what exactly is meant by French Socialists, I don't know. Does he refer to the Socialistes de France or to the Socialistes S.F.I.O. or does he lump them all together in one dread category...
Older critics still refer nostalgically to the way Olive Fremstad interpreted the great Wagner heroines. The younger generation of operagoers hears little about the woman who, from the beginning of the century to the time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival...