Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them good for a laugh, the rest for a yawn. The second act in particular is pretty slow-moving, though Mr. Kaufman is doubtless concocting new tricks to bolster it up by the time he's ready to bring his proteges to the roaring Forties for an extended visit. There's still a lot of deadwood to be cleared away, but George...
Across Quincy Street is the Union, which houses the Freshman dining halls and libraries as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where one obtains tickets for football games. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy street is the Fogg Art Museum...
...Diplomatic type he is, too. They spin a yarn about the time he was goin' down to Chequers to visit Winnie Churchill. He'd just been made a full admiral and he was standin' in a railway station wearin' his brand-new uniform. Bein' on the smallish side, the gold braid on his sleeve reached near up to his elbows. A soldier come up to him and says: 'Excuse me, could you tell me what time the train for So-and-so leaves?' Old Splash Guts drew himself up and looked...
...group of students leaving on a visit to Spain, Marshal Pétain gave what may become the new French flag - a banner bearing the fasces and Vichy's slogan, FAMILLE, TRAVAIL, PATRIE (FAMILY, WORK, COUNTRY...
Dvorak: Quintet in E Flat Major (Prague String Quartet with Richard Kosderka, second viola; Victor; eight sides). Czech Dvorak's U.S. visit in the 1890s inspired this and other "American" works (From the New World, "American" Quartet, etc.), in which Negro and Indian themes are always on the verge of doing a polka. Good first recording...