Word: riga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger in the sun was in the eyes of Liszt, and he put down his long Turkish pipe, amazed. He had never heard of Weber's piano music, and he solemnly pledged eternal gratitude to Von Lenz from Riga for having introduced to him such beauty. He had known only Weber's universally popular opera Frieschütz.š And young Weber had been dead nearly two years...
...European Student Unions to send delegates to be their official guests for the summer. The delegates from Harvard will visit, among other places, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, and Bremen in Germany Gutenburg and Stockholm in Sweden, the Norwegian Fiords, Helsingfors in Finland Reval, Navra and Dorpat in Esthonia. Riga in Latvia. Kouno in Lithuaria Warsaw in Poland, Prague in Czechoslavakia, Geneva, and Paris...
...earth was lost. Dipping, the pilot dropped a note to gaping peasants: "Where are we? North or south of the Gulf of Finland? If south, please hold arms aloft; if north, cross arms." The gapers lifted their arms uncrossed. The nearest railway station was that of a village near Riga, in Latvia. That evening, 12 hours behind schedule, the Norge loomed through the dusk and was hauled into a hangar near the Gatchina Palace, outside of Leningrad. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers had to struggle in three feet of snow to get her berthed...
...sets out on a tour of Europe. He makes gifts; here a few pounds of rhubarb, there the skin of a black fox or a sable. Only twice does he give away an ermine, once to the Queen of Holland, once to a wench who satisfies him. At Riga he is chased away from the fortifications. At Königsberg he makes the Grand Electress blush, argues with Leibnitz, is trained in gunnery. At Berlin he rapes the Duchess of Mecklenburg. In Holland he learns anatomy and ship building. At Vienna he gets word of a revolution in Russia...
Last week Arthur Ruhl,* famed European correspondent, cabled to The New York Herald Tribune a series of significant despatches from Riga, Latvia. Carefully Correspondent Ruhl made clear that his intention was to provide a general picture of Soviet Russia uncluttered by statistics. In a word, he found business and industrial conditions reviving on an apparently firm basis; social and religious affairs functioning with but little friction in new channels; and Governmental dictatorship still absolute...