Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Austrian Pretender Archduke ("Kaiser") Otto slipped out of his Belgian refuge for an unknown destination, and Austrian Monarchists prayerfully recalled: "Our Kaiser Otto has said 'if my Empire seems about to fall to the Nazis, I will be in Vienna before Hitler!'
Arnold's concern for the immediate practical effects of government actions rather than for their ultimate tendencies has caused him to be criticized as an irresponsible opportunist. But one feels that the author's insistence on immediate considerations springs from his dislike for those who vaguely concede the need for...
George Foley had also supervised the erection by Spratt's Patent Ltd. of a mile of temporary kennels, in which the dogs lay panting, yapping, sleeping, in which handlers & owners, as well, occasionally took refuge. In three days the So tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt...
The Dybbuk (Ludwig Prywes). In Yiddish folklore, a dybbuk (pronounced dee-book) is a disembodied soul, denied peace in after life because of some earthly transgression, seeking refuge in the body of one it has loved. Twenty years ago, the late Playwright Solomon Rappaport, writing as S. Ansky, wove the...
Thirty years ago the most eminent of all U. S. composers, Edward Alexander MacDowell, died in Manhattan's Westminster Hotel. Known most widely for his piano piece, To a Wild Rose, courtly, affable MacDowell was internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs...