Word: vernal
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...front cover) While Yaqui Indians performed their vernal rites in desert Arizona, and Christians the world over celebrated Easter Sunday (with fire from heaven at Jerusalem), Spring came to the people who follow music in Philadelphia and Manhattan and set them to discussing a musical event-of-the-year: the stage presentation, first in Philadelphia, then in Manhattan, of the most controversial composition; of the age, Igor Stravinsky's savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with...
Engaged. Dolores, famed London artists' model .(Sculptor Jacob Epstein et al.); and Philip Yale Drew, actor; at London. Thrice married before, she once wrote the 'story of her busy love life for the Hearst papers. Excerpt: "One vernal spring morning Prince Hitendra [of Cooch Behar] asked me to marry him, but I was so startled at this unexpected proposal that I forgot I was already married, and told him bluntly I could never marry a black...
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...ladies, and a Barriesque unworldliness, Virginia provides romance-weavers with a fabric ready-made. Stephena Cockrell takes heart of grace from this fact and adds another novel to the away-down-south-in-Dixie list. She goes about the task with a directness arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first time, constitutes good...
Just as one impulse from the vernal wood makes the Colonel's lady and her well known sparring partner sisters under their respective skins, so does a stroll along the banks of the Charles reveal things which one never thought possible in this dear Cambridge. On a hot day, such as was the rare fortune yesterday, the upper reaches of the limpid stream resembled the Lido and Bailey's Beach more than a dignified and usually deserted river. Young Cambridge and a liberal assortment of canines disported themselves in the intriguing and unanalyzed waters, making whoopee all around Stillman...