Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sturdy, moral, beef-consuming Britons know who Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is-know her as a famed "militant suffragette" who smashed windows, was often arrested, and repeatedly hunger-struck until British women won the vote...
Last week the smug beef-consumers decided that they now know what Sylvia Pankhurst is. They made up their minds quickly when she displayed to reporters, last week, a chubby, black-eyed man child, and announced that he is her natural son, aged four months...
...Louis Kerness, Chairman, and Sylvia Hurwitz: Milton Band and Gertrude Band; Louis Horvitz and Fay Isaacson: Tobias Levinson and Hannah Aronson: B. G. Macy and Mildred Levinson; A. Raum and Evelyn Alter...
...songs that Schubert is measured today, by his Erlkonig that he wrote when he was eighteen, by Who is Sylvia?, Litaney, Tod und das Madchen and the Standchen, by the songs that crept in to become the life of his last string quartets, his quintet, the C Major and the great Unfinished Symphony. In Vienna he was first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist...
...something to happen. In The Last Post, as in the three preceding volumes (Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up) of the series which it concludes, the story veers and sways, the characters faint and reappear. Christopher Tietjens, who loves Valentine Wannop, watches his wife Sylvia practice unfaithfulness; at the end of 285 pages Mark Tietjens, brother to Christopher, dies of disease. Were it not doubly impertinent to offer advice to an author whose works are so obviously satisfying to himself, some brash but discerning critic might paraphrase one of Author Ford's titles, saying...