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...young girl when she took her first engagement in a dingy Barcelona fishermen's cafe. She wandered from village to village, city to city, picking up the melodies that are woven through Spanish life. Her King heard of her and commanded a performance. She became the cardinal vocal artist of her country...
...married Bessie Bell, a Hadley (Mass.) girl, who had illustrated his first book of verse. A volume of stories, Master Frisky, woven about their pet collie, was well received and the blind man began to go back into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky...
...Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. The prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged in the breasts of these alleged murderers of Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, irreconcilable foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June...
...scientific method; avoids the Charybdis of sentimentality and the Scylla of puritanism; achieves clarity and justice. The men who loved her were beyond counting, she had many suitors?but once only, as it seems, Mary had a love affair of her own. The others were merely scarlet threads woven into the texture of her ambition to succeed Elizabeth as England's queen and to restore the Catholic church to Britain...
...Dear" had only fainted or collapsed after the jump, attendants might yet have saved his life by following certain veterinary procedures, by rubbing him vigorously with a brush, or a "handful of straw or twigs, or coarse towels, or even some coarse-woven wearing apparel. If aromatic spirits of ammonia were handy, they should have mixed one or two tablespoonfuls in four to six ounces of water and let the cloudy mixture trickle over the horse's tongue every 20 minutes. But this is a heroic measure of last recourse...