Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artur Bodanzky, conducting, called into service the windswept vigor which he acquired last summer at the Lido, Venice, where his lean torso was seen on the beach, wrapped in a gaudy bathrobe. His wife was with him there. Also his son Karl. Also his daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...
...advance of the shocks felt last month in the Merrimac Valley (TIME, Oct. 19), and last week he told her that worse upheavals are coming, upheavals as violent as those that visited New England in 1775 and about the same calibre as the Santa Barbara shocks last summer. He predicted that the property damage to New England would be great because of the number of buildings on insecure terrain and the vertical architecture, but he looked for most damage from panic. He argued the wisdom of instructing the public in "the amenities of conduct during earthquakes." In the light...
Professor Manley O. Hudson '10, Bemis Professor of International Law, will speak in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 4 o'clock tomorrow. One of the leading advocates of the entry of the United States into the League of Nations, Professor Hudson will speak on "A Summer With the League of Nations...
...been closely involved in international affairs. In 1919 he was a member of the Paris Peace Conference, serving on three commissions, and later held a position on the legal section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations. Since the League was founded he has spent every summer at Geneva. His activities in the field of international cooperation have varied from a position of legal adviser to the International Labor Conference in 1919 to legal adviser to the International Conference on Obscene Publications...
...tomorrow's meeting, Professor Hudson will speak on his observations gained at Geneva last summer. His speech will have especial significance in view of the League's recent show of power in stopping the Greco-Bulgarian war which threatened to start another Balkan struggle, and its present activity in settling the Syrian question. The subject of international cooperation is a timely one also, because of the present intercollegiate movement for American participation in the World Court...