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Word: sapphics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening. By ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering the Sapphic reputation this actress has, Marcel recalls his Albertine from the matinee. That night, Albertine having been anxious to attend a party at the Verdurins', Marcel goes instead, seeking the cause of the attraction, which develops to be one Mile. Vinteuil, a guest expected there. Follows a detailed description of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Telescope | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...program will be as follows: Quintet in C major, Op. 163 Shubert Sea Song W.R. Spalding '87 Bugle Song W.R. Spalding '87 Sapphic Ode Brahms The Disappointed Serenader Brahms Bois Epais Lully Intermezzo C.T. Leonard '23 Cypris Edward Ballantine The Shepherds Elegy Edward Ballantine Poem for Pianoforte and Orchestra (arranged for two Pianofortes) Randall Thompson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL CONCERT OF HARVARD MUSICAL CLUB ON THURSDAY | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

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