Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MAYBE it can be done. They tell us, now that Queen Elizabeth was a man, and hid it from everybody but a chosen few for a matter of half a century. This book, evidently, is an expose of the way she did it, except that, by reverse English, the girl in the book was really a woman...
...pamphlets! Books are impossible-he can not get them into Russia. . . . We are good friends. Very often I go to see him and explain my ideas. He does not go so far toward Spirituality as I do-but more or less. He is more anxious to make propaganda and tell the people he is Tsar...
...hearts. Over the Alps they went, throughout the World, singing of the sweet mystery of Bethlehem. Their songs lingered behind them. The Spanish peasant added episodes out of his dark Moorish imagination. In one group of Spanish carols the three wise men become gypsies, who read the palms and tell the fortunes of Jesus, Mary, Joseph. In Germany an ancient custom still endures, in some old-world villages: that of singing carols from the church towers...
...country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the highest expression of the happiness that is the heart of the Christmas season, no one can tell. It is enough that men sing who do not sing at any other time...
Singers and actors usually tell silly stories about themselves. They have certain legends that must be preserved for their public and truth so much more fascinating than fiction in most of their cases is let to drop unnoticed by the wayside. So it is that most autobiographies of prima donnas make sorry reading, that the material they give their biographers simmers down usually to flimsy substance. But last week there was published a biography that proved the exception. Mary Lawton* wrote it, called it Schumann-Heink, the Last of the Titans...