Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bori's career almost ended tragically when she was 27. A throat ailment cost her her voice and she returned to Spain, lived out of doors, burned countless candles to the Virgin Mary, waited for months without attempting to speak. When she returned to the Metropolitan in 1921 she established herself still more strongly with the Opera's subscribers. There was no one to excel her as Manon, Juliette, Mélisande, Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Bohème, Fiora in L'Amore...
Egvptians 3,500 years ago suffered from an "AAA disease" which resembled chlorosis, was represented hieroglyphically by a schematic phallus. In the Middle Ages doctors called, it morbus virgineus (virgin's disease). Shakespeare called it greensickness. Victims were favorite subjects for portraiture. Best of such paintings is Gerard Dou's Mal d' Amour (see cut), which hangs in Buckingham Palace...
Soviet Russia's contribution to the problem of what to do with the world's spare Jews is to transplant them to virgin soil in the Soviet Republic of Biro-Bidjan, insulating the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. In the event of Russo-Japanese hostilities Biro-Bidjan will be "the Jewish Belgium," and smart Bolsheviks count on world publicity for "Japanese Atrocities" in Biro-Bidjan...
Most famed native of the Virgin Islands yet to appear on the world scene, Camille Pissarro was born a Danish citizen in 1830. Pissarro's father, a French Jew of Portuguese descent, had done quite well for himself as a hardware dealer on the island of St. Thomas. He sent little Camille to Paris to school, brought him back to the Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above...
...went on to hire a theatre whenever she could afford one, practiced until her feet were calloused, took pupils to pay for her meagre existence. Recognition came when she was chosen to dance with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1928, again two years later when she impersonated the primitive virgin in Le Sacre du Printemps in the performances conducted by Leopold Stokowski (TIME, April...