Word: refreshment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BEETHOVEN THE CREATOR-Remain Holland-Harper ($5). "I will refresh my eyes, a last time, at the sun of Beethoven," begins virile Author Holland. "The whole being of a Beethoven ... is representative of a certain European epoch. . . . He is not the shepherd driving his flock before him; he is the bull marching at the head of his herd." Portrait at 30. "The mind of Beethoven has strength for its base. The musculature is powerful, the body athletic; we see the short stocky body with its great shoulders, the swarthy red face, tanned by sun and wind, the stiff black mane...
...modern science has given to modern Albums a means of description and narration which has also been aptly capitalized by the present daily press. There are pictures, more technically perhaps, cuts in the modern class compendiums, and the graduate who journeys to Singapore can refresh himself of an evening with views of the Yard, of the crew captain, and even of himself before his hair fell. Externals again perhaps but they are elements of importance in the memories which give color to a college education...
...Cherbourg the chief steward will purchase an assortment of drinks for the westbound trip, plus a supply to replenish the medicinal liquor stock. At the 12-mile-limit the inbound Leviathan will jettison all unconsumed liquor except the medicinal supply under seal which will be held in readiness to refresh passengers on the next eastbound trip. The westbound trip, with a full European stock, will be wetter than the eastbound trip with its limited medicinal supply for sale. Likewise the chief steward will have to exercise rare judgment in making his purchases abroad to estimate the exact thirst of westbound...
...west side of the foyer, in a grove of potted palms, the red-jacketed Marine Band blares martially. Young military aides ply softly up and down, keeping the line of guests moving decorously but swiftly into the State Dining Room, where the faint may refresh themselves with clear ice water from a mahogany sideboard...
...placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress...