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...presented the Republican tribute to the dead. He quoted Felicia Hemans, Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Memoriam | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Though Marina Yurlova now dances for her suppers on the concert stage she once did a more dangerous pas seul. Readers of Cossack Girl may find it easier to read than believe, but Publisher Macaulay insists Authoress Yurlova's hairbreadth narrative is "authenticated by documents.'' No less credible than Joan Lowell's notorious Cradle of the Deep, Cossack Girl is a thriller of the same order, but better written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cossack Soldieret | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...done once or twice before) and began to dance. Everyone was vastly delighted, for the Count's dancing is superb, and there was something quite out of the common in seeing the Chief of the Military Cabinet, got up as a woman, perform a pas-seul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Effeminate War Lord | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...first Boston performance of "Le Medecin Malgre Lui," was given last night, in Copley Hall, and proved most successful in every way. The play went off very smoothly and was greatly appreciated by an excellent audience. The actors received several curtain calls and the ballets, with the "pas seul" by G. B. Hanavan 2 L., were encored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Boston Performance. | 4/13/1898 | See Source »

...ballets were all pretty, and the first one is especially funny. The exits, however, were somewhat ragged. G. B. Hanavan 2L. was particularly graceful and sure in a "pas seul" at the end of the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Performance of Cercle Play. | 4/12/1898 | See Source »

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