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Converted Prostitutes. Their pet project, however, was something called "Urania Cottage," or "Miss Coutts' Home for Fallen Women at Shepherd's Bush." A good half of the letters in the volume are concerned with the difficulties of reconstructing Jezebel in the image of Mrs. Grundy...
...practical sense in such things. He felt that it was useless to talk to a prostitute of her duty to society. "Society," he wrote, "has used her ill ... and she cannot be expected to take much heed of its rights or wrongs." He thought, instead, that the charges of Urania Cottage should be "tempted to virtue" by kindness and by the chance to learn an occupation and good habits, to hear pleasant music and read not only elevating but even enjoyable books, to putter in gardens, and, finally, by the chance to sail, passage-paid by Miss Coutts, to Australia...
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Margarete Bäumer and Ursula Richter, sopranos; Tiana Lemnitz, mezzo-soprano; Kurt Böhme, bass; chorus of the Dresden State Opera, the Saxonian State Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe conducting; Urania Records, sides LP). Soprano Bäumer (The Marschallin) has an unpleasant tremolo and Böhme (Ochs) is too growly and guttural; otherwise a middling-good performance. Recording: good...
...torpedo. Five or seven rocket installations in the tail keep the projectile going, outer rockets firing in pairs after a large central one has burned out. It is guided to its target by radio, and causes a tremendous explosion when it hits. The rocket gun even has a name: Urania...
...family of minor planets which number over 1,000. Almost all the group follow orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Eros, however, does not travel in a conventional asteroid path, wanders sometimes between Mars and Jupiter, sometimes between Mars and Earth. Discovered in 1898 by Dr. Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, the small planet was given a masculine name because of its eccentric orbit. According to astronomical custom, only asteroids which move in an ordinary orbit are given feminine names. The cycle of Eros' motion with relation to Earth is 81 years. In 1975 it will approach...