Word: sphinx
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sphinx. About his own music Sibelius is cagey. Some have called him Sphinxlike, and he has found the description a great convenience. Nowadays, when English-speaking visitors get too inquisitive about how he composes or when his next symphony will be finished, he replies with regretful, laconic shrug: "I, Sphinx." There are grounds to suspect that he has quantities of early unpublished compositions stored about the house, that he has already outlined the movements of a Ninth Symphony in addition to those of his forthcoming Eighth. A visitor's inquisitiveness invariably brings the same Finnish shrug, the favorite, inevitable...
...hard to say just how well Edgar John Bergren, now Bergen, would do with the Great Sphinx of Egypt. He might get a peep of personality out of the Great Silent One, provided he could give it a monocle and scarlet Mephistophelian lips. At the age of 13, quite by accident. Bergen had already made his voice seem to come from halfway down the block from where he stood...
...responded to Florentine decadents, soon found her new companions too headstrong for her. She sponsored a modern art show and demonstrations of the I. W. W., entertained one of the dynamiters of the Los Angeles Times during his flight, was written up in the newspapers as a sphinx, a cigaret smoker, a society lady turned radical. But all her deftness in avoiding emotional commitments did not save her when she fell in love with John Reed, revisited Europe with...
...York Inc. resolved that the President's warnings are "hasty and ill-advised," a "serious blow" to U. S. Commerce & Recovery. After becoming so heated that it referred to the President as "the daring young man on the international trapeze," the Conference butted its head against the Roosevelt Sphinx with vain requests by cable and telegram that the President should "clarify the situation by outlining future policies...
Shrunken old Greek President Alexander Zaimis remained mum as the Sphinx all week while his resignation was rumored hourly and Royalist slogans appeared, "Vote For Georgios II, A Democratic King!" The Tsaldaris Cabinet announced it would hold a plebiscite Oct. 27 on a restoration of the Monarchy-provided, of course, that a settlement of the issue by the trusty and traditional Greek method of a coup d'état did not occur before then...