Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit, carrying a miniature chess set in his pocket as usual, Prokofieff had ready a new work embodying what he said was a new melodic line, full of "new curves" because he thinks that modern music must be melodic yet not reactionary. The work was a suite from a ballet, Romeo & Juliet, which Prokofieff conducted with precise beat and knees that wobbled curiously but in accurate rhythm. The audience, cordial but not unrestrained, found Romeo & Juliet a sly, elusive projection of its subject, more lyric than Prokofieff's early works have been credited with being, but less so than...
Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, will visit the University at 10 o'clock this morning, according to information received last night from Washington. He will be escorted on his tour of Cambridge by Jerome D. Greene '96, director of the Tercentenary, emeritus, and secretary of the Corporation...
...think President Roosevelt is a very great man. . . . The main purpose of my visit to America is to promote my magazine. ... I am frankly envious of the popularity in the British Isles of several American weeklies...
...property of Joseph Pulitzer, Lady Houston used its cabin as a writing room in which to compose the doggerel which she often employed politically,* or to coin such phrases for Captain Eden as "That nancyfied nonentity in the Foreign Office." Another Houston dislike was for Sir Samuel Hoare, whose visit to France caused her to headline an article, "Why Send Hoares to Paris...
...reality she took to books. Her heterodox hair and her heterogeneous reading made her "a rather embittered little philosopher" at 16. But Romance soon reared its tousled head again, in the person of an Eton boy on vacation, with whom Elinor ate candy and discussed the classics. On a visit to Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven. When...