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...planes were squatting before the hangar, a French Potez, and an ancient Farman. The Potez escaped with three bullet holes, but the Farman was riddled and burned impressively. When the Italians flew away a dog and a servant in the British Legation had been wounded...
...Drake, however, who tried merely to spoil the Spaniards, Ralegh had colonizing ambitions. His most famed colony, on which he never set foot, was Virginia. Thence he imported and did his best to popularize smoking tobacco. (Biographer Thompson sets down as apocryphal the story of Ralegh's alarmed servant, who seeing smoke coming from his" master's mouth! dashed a bucket of water over him.) He spent ?40,000 trying to get Virginia started, finally handed it over to a London company...
Mdzart's Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" opens this evening's concert by the Boston Symphony in Sanders Theatre. Following this delightful work is the Brahms Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2 in B flat with Artur Schnabel as soloist. As an artist, Mr. Schnabel is always the servant of the spirit of the music as well as the absolute master of its performance--a eulogy which cannot be applied to many. The work itself is a rather amazing combination of concerto and symphony and is considered by many a none too happy example of Brahms's genius. The concert...
Indeed Subscriber Belger does not understand the meaning of the word "wench." Webster's New International Dictionary defines "wench": "A girl or maiden; young woman; damsel. A girl of the peasant class; also a female servant." Archaic is meaning No. 4: "A lewd woman; a strumpet...
...THEY REVELED - Philip Wylie - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nine pseudo-people go through a summer of bright marital exchanges, puzzled drinking, and Connecticut's best boredom. NOT TOO NARROW . . . NOT TOO DEEP - Richard Sale - Simon & Schuster ($2). What might happen if Charles Rann Kennedy's Servant in the House were put into Stephen Crane's Open Boat with ten escaped convicts. The result will not even please Buchmanites...