Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could dance the Boston? That was what the guests of Mme. Pilsudska wanted to know. Already the fiddles were beginning; the gentlemen, in the order of a fashion lost in the U. S., and in some parts of Europe, but maintained here in the core of Warsaw society, were crossing the ballroom of the Merchants' Club to choose their partners. It was an exhilarating moment, four o'clock in the morning, the beginning of the Boston at this party given by Mme. Pilsudska, wife of Marshal Pilsudski, the "Dictator." A handsome youth was introduced to the wife...
...when he (the present Pope) was elevated to the Cardinalate in 1921. The other Italian whom His Holiness slated for elevation last week, is Monsignor Giuseppe Gamba, whom he appointed Archbishop of Turin in 1923. The investiture of the former will be performed by President Moscicki of Poland at Warsaw...
...establish permanent commissions for international student cooperation and to send annually five delegates from each country to represent the students of their country at the congresses of the C. I. E. Official delegates from over 30 countries have met every year since 1921 at Prague, The Hague, Oxford, Warsaw, Copenhagen, and again at Prague this summer...
...main task of the first congresses was to reconcile the students of the exbellarent countries and this was fairly well achieved by means of travelling student commissions and orator delegates from the various countries. In 1924, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey sent student representatives to the Congress at Warsaw...
...Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-49) famed pianist and composer, born at Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...