Word: te
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sang palestrina's Supplicationes and Psaume 121 sang Milhaud. Next came Vassar's rendition of Andre Caplet's Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and the two choruses joined again in O Vos Omnes by Vaughn Williams. For the climax of the concert E. Harold Gear conducted Zoltan Kodaly's beautiful Te Deum, written for mixed chorus and four soloists...
Died. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnson, 63, onetime British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
When newly-serious Poet Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman, both highly paid Hollywood scenarists, returned from a Spanish junket last fall, their strong feminine sympathies were all on the side of the Loyalists. Fortnight ago, in a restaurant tête-à-tête with her good friend Mr. Winchell, Miss Hellman told a harrowing tale of mad nights in Valencia and Madrid when she saw non-combatants dodge into shell-pocked doorways to escape death from...
...patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
...assume a mandate over Spain!" he proposed. "It should hold fair elections to end the civil war." Hasty adjournment of the Council squelched this concrete proposal. The other dominion bombshell was exploded not at Geneva but at Montreal by South African Delegate to the League of Nations Charles Theodore te Water. He declared that South Africa "would be willing to participate in a general agreement for the return to Germany of her former colonies, if it cost South Africa none of its security." This so alarmed London bigwigs that Reuters, the news agency closest to the Government, requested all newsorgans...