Word: slavically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Siberia and Alaska, learned last week with intense surprise from the first vessel that has visited them in 15 years that Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
...Slavic peasants know that wampirs ("blood-sucking ghosts") flit eerily about at night, fixing their terrible fangs on human victims, draining out blood. Therefore, the corpse of a wampir (vampire) remains always fresh and rosy in the grave, nourished by the blood sucked by the vampire ghost at night. Effective means of exterminating vampires are: to drive a stake through the blood-nourished corpse; cut off the head; tear out the entrails. So say the wise sages of the Balkans, and so simple peasants believe...
George Antheil believes himself on the track of such a creation. His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells- but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds. He wants to express America, Africa, steel. While his Slavic blue eyes grow round with vision, he will assure the interviewer that to him a good Ford engine seems more beautiful than a mediocre painting...
...professor rounded up talent and discovered a first class bassoon player, formerly with the German and Slavic Philharmonic in Laibach, Austria, sawing wood for new garages in Butte; one of Finland's best clarinets coal-digging in Red Lodge; an able violinist in a Helena high school. Additional products were imported...
...Emerson D 5 Mon. at 2 Emerson 27 9 Tues. at 9 Emerson 27 10 Tues. at 2 Emerson 23 13a Consult Dr. Pratt 27 Tues. at 11 Emerson 27 31 Mon. at 9 Emerson 27 ROMANCE PHILOLOGY 8 Mon. at 4 (provisional hour) Widener Y SLAVIC 1a Tues. at 9 Sever 25 1b Tues. at 12 Sever 18 2a, 2b, 3b Consult Professor Wiener 5, 6a, Mon. at 2 Sever 25 SOCIAL ETHICS 9 Tues. at 9 Emerson A 16 Tues. at 11 Emerson N 28 Tues. at 2 Emerson N 29 Mon. at 3 Emerson N 30 Tues...