Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna, Suicide Emma Albrecht, 47, spinster, left a note: 'T could not go on living after the unfaithfulness of my beloved canary, Hansi, who for six years had been my sole companion." Hansi had flown away...
...this week, when they were to wind up the engagement, the Fokine dancers had impressed critics as no more than mediocre. There was, however, one exception-22-year-old Paul Haakon (pronounced hawk-on). In Scheherazade he was a lithe Favorite. Slave. In Les Sylphides he was the sole male dancer, pirouetting classically in white tights and black blouse. In Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice he was an exuberant Broom, bounding about until he ripped his tights open. And, decked with pink blooms in Le Spectre de la Rose, the role which Nijinsky made his own, Haakon managed...
...young nurse for his only surviving son, Titus. The girl was named Hendrickje Stoffels, had a broad, gracious face, a handsome throat, deep breasts, coarse hips and legs. By her, her employer had two children but he never married her, possibly because his wife's will made him sole executor as long as he did not remarry. Hendrickje could not read or write but she apparently loved Rembrandt. After her first child, she was expelled from her church. Rembrandt's Biblical subjects shifted from such as Samson Menacing His Father-in-Law to Woman Taken in Adultery...
...nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action Department. Sole theme limitation was that each must have something remotely to do with the market or the Socialistic ideology of Mexico's National Revolutionary Party or both...
...against two lawyers and an accountant. James McCauley Landis was the lean, young Harvard Law School professor who helped write the Securities Act of 1933 while serving on the Federal Trade Commission. Since Ferdinand Pecora resigned to become a New York justice. Commissioner Landis has been the sole SECommissioner with authentic New Deal credentials. Businessmen used to be terrified by his brilliant mind and by his saturnine eyes. Lately they have found him more sympathetic (see cut). Under the Landis wing are SEC's research divisions...