Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Civil War pictures, there followed a series of rural scenes, highly admired by Homer's contemporaries. Then, in 1881, the artist went to England for two summers, began the paintings of fishermen, ships and waves by which he is now best remembered. On his return he joined his family at Prout's Neck, Me., a village which his father was trying to develop as a summer resort. Always chary of company, Winslow Homer now became practically a hermit...
...later years the head of that household refused to pay for a ticket to hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist at St. Patrick's Cathedral she made enough to go to Europe, where she studied with Lilli Lehmann. She was determined to be a dramatic soprano but when her funds were exhausted she heard...
Fremstad's voice showed occasional wear & tear, but when she left the Metropolitan in 1914 her star was high. Manager Giulo Gatti-Casazza invited her to return on her own terms if she would only relearn all her Wagner roles in English, on the mere chance that subscribers might be willing to accept great music if it was not sung in German. Fremstad refused. When the Wagner operas were reinstated after the War, her health was broken and since then she has been much too smart to attempt a feeble, worn-out comeback...
...that the work could be done just as easily with 1) an ordinary treatment table, 2) a plain glass irrigation jar on a stand, 3) a rectal tube and a Y tube with two clamps, and 4) a large closed jar or an ordinary hopper to receive the return flow...
...intersectional football games have been scheduled between Harvard and the University of Chicago for 1938 and 1939, it was announced yesterday. The first meeting of the teams will be on November 5, 1938, in the Harvard Stadium, and the Crimson will play a return game at Chicago the following year...