Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the picture is placed near two fine Gainsboroughs and a portrait by Copley, yet it attracts much attention. The painting shows a most inviting scene, a well bred family party on their lawn by the river at twilight. As they look over a smooth bowling green towards some woods and a castle tower in the distance with the high evening sky above them, there is a sense of peace and comfort which pervades...
...Glee Club will sing "March of the Peers," Sullivan; "O Domino Jean Christe," des Pres; "Cante di caccia," and "Tu mi vnot," Haltan folk songs; "Tarantella," Carter; "Der Jager Abschied," and "jagdlied," Mendelssohn; "Bacchanale," Offenbach; and the Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounov," Moussorgsky. The concert will be broadcast over short-wave radio by station WIXAL of Boston...
...Best People, Cosmo Lang became Dean of Divinity at Magdalen, Oxford, and four years later, on the recommendation of Arthur Balfour, vicar of the largest parish in England, St. Mary's, Portsea. This parish had a vast industrial population and employed 15 curates, but right across Spithead (scene of this week's Coronation Naval Review), was the Isle of Wight, and on the Isle of Wight sat aging Queen Victoria. Cosmo Lang was soon Queen Victoria's favorite preacher at Osborne, and his career was assured...
...first time in 1934. Beaten after a disputed finish in the fourth race, he sailed home in a rage, announced he would never challenge again, took almost two years to change his mind. Famed principally as an airplane manufacturer, whose first appearance on the U. S. scene was when he gave exhibition flights over Long Island in one of his own planes in 1911, Skipper Sopwith applied his technique as an aeronaut to sailing when yachts became his hobby in 1928. Having taught himself to navigate, he equipped Endeavour I with every conceivable mechanical gadget except an altimeter. Like...
Since Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road many a U. S. writer has attempted a modern sequel to that ringing inventory of the U. S. scene. Bravest of these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...