Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerk ever died to honor a less worthy lady. The Baroness' grandfather was one Baltazzi, "a dirty Greek," who amassed millions. Her father was one Baron Vetschera, a doddering Austrian diplomat with just sense enough to sell his title high. She, launched by a clever mother, became the siren who ensnared the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef...
...home ("narrowest house in Manhattan"), abandoned it during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera this Henchman will surely be, judging by the quality of Deems Taylor's compositions to date (Through the Looking Glass, The Siren Song, The Chambered Nautilus, etc.). A joyous, spirited and perhaps abandoned opera it is likely to be, if Poetess Millay has written as she was wont. Of burning her candle at both ends for the "lovely light" it gave, she used to rhyme. She has raced barefoot at dawn through...
Though the U. S. stands in no immediate prospect of a Moscow station powerful enough to "jam" stations across the Atlantic, European statesmen were distinctly vexed, last week at the probability that millions of Godfearing, Capital-revering Europeans will soon be listening to such siren-tongued orators as the Soviet régime can muster...
...oldtime Woodbury custom: they failed to provide free cigars to as many bummers as could elbow their way into the wedding reception. Therefore the small sons and nephews of these bummers (also the hoodlum daughters and nieces) assembled automobile horns, Klaxons, tin pans, fish horns, blank cartridges, a fire siren; gave the Coutts on two successive nights what the local press described as "an oldtime calithumping...
...Untranslatable: "the siren," "the wheedler into benumbed complaisance." So called because of the lulling, persuasive power of his deep cello voice...