Word: thirteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means setting out on a new path when they borrow ideas from the music of the people. Art-music in all periods has taken many of its strong and lasting elements of form, rhythm, and melody from popular dances and songs. From the Paris motets of the thirteenth century to the music of our own generation we are indebted to the freshness and vitality of the dances of the people which have imparted new life to the works of serious musicians...
...National Library; the Chateau de Versailles and the Trianons, stripped of their furnishings, lay empty and bare. Cathedral cities heard the tattoo on wood as scaffoldings went up. From Chartres' Cathedral (one mile distant from a great military airport), the stained-glass windows fired in the Thirteenth Century were lifted down to safety...
Back in their spectacular season form, the 1942 baseball nine buried the St. Mark's batters 17 to 5, under a deluge of hits to chalk up their thirteenth win of the season yesterday on the enemy diamond...
...wedding?" It was a rhetorical question. "Well, you know in the beginning they were going to be married during the first week of June, but Mr. Buttress, that's John's father, has to go back to Harvard for his twenty-fifth reunion then. The next date was the thirteenth, but John has to be at Harvard for his annual club dinner. By this time Cynthia was really impatient, so the twentieth was decided upon. Once more procrastination struck, as Dicky, that's John's brother, found he couldn't get down that day because he had to take...
Dating from the first half of the thirteenth century, this grotesque griffin originally formed part of a row of ghastly figures that decorated the walls of the Sals Capitula, or chapter house, in the ancient monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza near Burgos in north-central Spain. The hall was about thirty-four feet square by twelve feet high and the beasts nearly covered its walls. Around 1773 the hall was remodelled to permit the erection of a large staircase, and its weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private...