Word: vered
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...people who have read about the much-touted Park Avenue chimes may be aware that there is another carillon, made by the same English bell foundry, only slightly inferior in range of bells, in St. Stephen's Church, Cohasset, Mass. Kam Lefévere is carilloneur. For some two years he has given concerts of carillon music on Sunday afternoons when the weather is warm. In place of a worthy patriotic air, Mr. Lefévere has a way of ending with a fantasia by Benoit, a carillon arrangement of Schubert or Rubenstein or his own graceful "Preludium...
...world was, last week, called to account for these ornithic atrocities by one Henry de Vere Stacpoole, British writer...
...Earldom of Oxford was first conferred upon the illustrious family of de Vere in 1142. It first fell into abeyance in 1703, upon the death of Aubrey de Vere, the 20th Earl, who died without issue. It was, however, revived by Queen Anne in 1711 in favor of Robert Harley, a great Tory leader of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, sometime Speaker of the House of Commons and First Lord of the Treasury (position nearly equivalent to the then unknown premiership). In 1853 it again fell into abeyance to be revived now in favor of H. H. Asquith...
...Vere Hutchinson's "Great Waters," previously announced by the Century Co. as on the way, is definitely to be published April 16, the publishers state. They remind us that the first novel of this young sister of A. S. M. Hutchinson, "Sea Wrack," received from American reviewers a remarkable "press," in which the word "powerful" outdistanced all other adjectives in number of times used. The new novel is described as a romance, and opens with the kidnaping of a young Englishman who has been brought up sober, diligent and respectable, and his carrying off to sea to be made...
...members of the ensemble, and actors on the vaudeville and burlesque stages, but their reasons d'etre are not so apparent when they involve players of established reputations, who may have spent years in developing the ultimate perfection of their art. a protective organization which keeps Gwendolyn de vere from being stranded in some Northwestern mining camp excuses itself, but when it might undertake to prevent a public appearance of an artist of the stamp of Sarah Bernhardt or Henri Coquelin because of some minor infringement of its rules, it reaches the height of the ridiculous...