Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debussy never finished Mrs. Hall's Rhapsodie. His last ambitious work was an order from Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio who wanted music for his Martyre de Saint-Sébastien to give to his mistress. Dancer Ida Rubinstein. Debussy's idolaters like to call Saint-Sébastien the great French Parsifal. Stage performances are never given to bear out their belief. The few concert performances have made it seem like the product of a tired, sterile mind. The War cast a final blight on Debussy's creative powers. One of his last feeble works...
...SAINT AND MR. TEAL-Leslie Charteris-Crime Club ($2). Three exciting adventures of Simon Templar, being a sequel to Getaway...
However hard it may be to define "American" to a foreigner, all U. S. citizens can see that the word fits like a glove such U. S. figures as Andrew Jackson. Man's man and no saint, he combines the best features of the Spirit of '76, the Wild West and a success story. His latest biographer does not carry Jackson's epic career through its Presidential conclusion but ends it with his retirement in 1821 when, full of honorable scars, Old Hickory was willing to call his day a day. More ambitious attempt than Author James...
...Paul's Catholic Club will hold its 39th annual ball and supper-dance in the main ballroom of the Hotel Statler on Monday, April 17. J. R. Canavan '34, chairman of the ball committee, has announced that the proceeds will be donated to the Saint Vincent de Paul of Cambridge...
...Washington, Mrs. Rockefeller in, Ormond Beach, Fla.; Pennsylvania's Senator Davis and Lady Louis Mountbatten, after appendicitis operations, in Pittsburgh and Paris; General Pershing, of a throat infection, in Tucson, Ariz.; Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Helen ("Boop-oop-a-doop") Kane Hoffman, of influenza in Saint Leonards, England, and Hamilton, Bermuda; Prizefighter Primo Camera and onetime English Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, of injuries received in automobile accidents, in Bologna, Italy, and Kent, England...