Word: romain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Called Babylonian Notation, Mozart's Handwriting and the Creative Process, The Evolution of Javanese Tone-Systems. Delegates from France and Germany were kept away by the war, and the musicologists soberly discussed probable hindrance of their work elsewhere, applauded a message from French Novelist-Musician Romain Rolland: "In the field of art, there is not . . . any rivalry among nations. The only combat worthy of us is that . . . between culture and ignorance...
Sometime in the 18th Century, the heart of Julien Poydras was broken. This week Mmes Marjorie Goudeau Vessier, Elizabeth Thibodeaux St. Romain, Myrtle Peavy Ashley and 18 other Louisiana brides will profit from the sequel to his sorrow...
From his 24-year exile in Switzerland, famed novelist playwright, pacifist Romain Rolland (Jean-Christophe, Soul Enchanted), 72, returned to his native France to end his days, "a man broken in heart, body and spirit...
Though the originality of his early compositions drew high praise from Critic Romain Holland (Jean-Christophe). it was not until he was 35 that Bloch got into his stride as a composer of distinctly Jewish music, began to color his music with scales and intervals derived from ancient synagogal hymns. In 1916 a tour as conductor of a dance troupe took him to the U. S., stranded him in Manhattan. Since then he has made the U. S. his home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute...
...Nobel Prize for literature went to the writer of The Thibaults (1 Mari Sandoz, 2 Romain Rolland, 3 Marcel Proust, 4 Sinclair Lewis, 5 Roger Martin du Card...