Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir Boys, the Piccoli Theatre, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Hindu Dancer Uday Shan...
...LL.B. '40, Harvard; Lewis B. Sohn, of Lwow, Poland, LL.M. and Master of Diplomatic Science, '35, University of John Casimir, Lwow, Poland, candidate for LL.M. '40, Harvard; Marcus Manoff, of Philadelphia, Pa., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; George H. Schuller, New Haven, Conn., J. D., '32, University of Vienna, candidate for LL.B. '40, Yale; Benjamin Carlin, Grove Hall, Mass., candidate for LL.B. '40, Wake Forest Law School; Henry H. Foster Jr., Lincoln, Nebr., LL.B. '36, University of Nebraska; Robert G Murray, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, candidate for LL.B. '40, Dalhousie; William T. Muse, Richmond, Va., LL.B., '30, University of Richmond, S.J.D...
...August 1703, "by the most gracious privilege of His Imperial Roman Majesty," a Viennese printer, one Johann Baptist Schönwetter (John Baptist Lovelyweather), started a court paper called Diarium. Vienna was capital of the Holy Roman Empire; Leopold I was Emperor. Said Printer Schönwetter of his paper: "It contains everything notable which occurs from day to day in this town of Vienna, as well as in other places all over the world...
...week when his beloved grandmother dies of cancer, his revered teacher Dr. Tower poisons Cassandra and kills himself. A notebook of Dr. Tower's intimates that he had been more than a father to his daughter. Parris goes off to study under the new psychologists in Vienna...
Mozart: Requiem Mass, K. 626 (University of Pennsylvania Choral Society with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Harl McDonald conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In 1791, as 35-year-old Mozart neared death in Vienna, a mysterious stranger offered him 50 ducats ($112.50) to write a Requiem. The stranger was an agent of one Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted to pass the composition off as his own. Ill, impoverished Mozart accepted the commission, asked no questions, wrote his Requiem as if for himself. Death took him before the end; his pupils finished the manuscript. His last work, it is also...