Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STRANGE GLORY-L. H. Myers-Earcourt, Brace ($2). Tragic triangle story of the deep South, by an author whose trilogy (The Root and the Flower) was called "ultra-Proustian...
Among previous notables who have held this position are Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, Jules Jusserand, and Elinu Root...
...restaurant business during the National Education Association Convention than the American Legion Convention but this business included food as well as drink. Any extra help that he put on for the N. E. A. gathering was employed, it was my observation, in dispensing chocolate malted milks, orange flips, lemonades, root beer and other such concoctions...
...radically different dance took root first in Germany shortly before the War when Rudolf von Laban propounded his theory that the important thing was free, inspired movement regardless of its form, that music was unnecessary, at best a mere appendage to real dynamic feeling. Laban theorized down to the smallest detail, studied movements in relation to character and mental attitudes. First to give his ideas concrete expression was his pupil, Mary Wigman, a tense, rawboned woman who was 27 before she decided on a dancer's career. Wigman soon claimed that she could feel herself...
...whose course in music was largely guided by the inspiring leadership of his great symphonic predecessor, Beethoven. Like the latter, he composed nine symphonies of which the Seventh (written in 1883) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest. It is typical of all his works in that the religious root is all-important; and also by virtue of the close coordination of the first three movements leading to a climax in the finale. Especially notable is the beautiful adagio which gives full expression to the emotional fervour surrounding the composer's deep love for the Catholic Church. The logical successor...