Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BLACK SWAN-Rafael Sabatini- Houghton Mifflin...
After a good holiday spent in writing his last few fizzlers, Author Sabatini in The Black Swan returns to his true character as romancer. The scene of his romance is the Caribbean Sea, the time soon after the death of England's second Charles. At this period pirates and buccaneers, having buried their pots of gold, were beginning to bury themselves. Even a respectable pirate like Henry Morgan had been retired to the governorship of Jamaica, bribed with a knighthood, pending his extermination of what few old buccaneer friends of his still carried on. Most reprobate, most elusive...
Most fanciful of all were concessions listed as "X," "Y" and "Z." Lee, Higginson were content with Kreuger's story that these assets must remain anonymous for high diplomatic reasons. In 1931, when President Joseph R. Swan of Guaranty Co. asked for detailed information, Herr Kreuger reported about $70.000.000 invested in "X." "Y" and "Z" but still insisted on anonymity. Last week it was revealed that X stood for Italy, Y for Spain, Z for Diamond Match Co. But the "concessions" did not exist, the $70,000,000 "investment" was pure falsehood...
...symphonic training.* Women who play wind instruments are additionally handicapped by the fact that they look funny blowing. Until this year the Chicago Woman's Symphony, conducted by Ebba Sundstrom, a dentist's wife, had men play the difficult winds. But in Manhattan last week there was stout Edith Swan to play the trombone, Amy Ryder, 60 years old and deaf, to lead the French horns. They did not worry about appearing ridiculous any more than Ethel Leginska did when she decided to become a conductor...
...Vaslav Nijinsky was by no means unique in turning from dancing to painting. Dancers in the U. S. who have been converted to camas include Paul Swan and Hubert Stowitts. Slim, classic-featured Mr. Swan used to perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process...