Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the dear dead days before the present millennium had set in, diplomacy was secret, diplomats secretive and suave. The late Sir Arthur Nicolson (1849-1928), onetime English Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (Constantinople), to Madrid, to St. Petersburg, onetime Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, is the subject of his...
The life history of Rembrandt is obscure and conjectural. It is known that he was born in 1606, son of a Leyden miller, that he studied only briefly. He married the rich Saskia van Ulenburgh, and after her death took his servant Hendrikje Stoffels as mistress. He enjoyed popular favor...
The Revolution intervened. Young Sascha journeyed to the U. S., joined the class of Franz Kneisel* under whom he developed slowly, unspectacularly, with no show of temperament. In 1915, he made his debut, was acclaimed.
*Because of his temperament, his technical infringements of U. S. L. T. A. amateur rules, his ingenuity in defending his actions, in putting the U. S. L. T. A. in an unpopular light.
The plot revolves about three persons--the young Italian composer who likes to keep his audience waiting, and finds that temperament has serious after-effects; Jan. a harpist, a born trouper and a thoroughly amusing one; and Tad. scion of an old New York family, who behaves is the traditional...