Word: aristocratically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...remember a highly pleased, stiff necked Austrian aristocrat saying on his return to Vienna after the regatta, 'The secret of Lipton's success is that he makes every one round him feel so much at home. He made even the Kaiser feel at home aboard his own imperial yacht...
Petal-of-the-Rose was the unwanted daughter of the learned, sensual, hard-hearted aristocrat Ou Tsong Ling. Of no account in her father's eyes, she led a secluded and boring existence shut up in the women's apartments until the Japanese, in revenge for the killing of a French missionary, sent a punitive expedition to the city. Then all the women, including Petal-of-the-Rose, were raped, thought that more lively than doing nothing all day long. Author Pettit writes suavely, ironically, often appositely, of philosophy, Christianity, "the facts of life," protects himself from censorship...
Alcide Tombarel, artist, manque, aristocrat, judge of good wine, is the hero of Author William J. Locke's latest book. Tombarel, an artist who had not been able to make his hands behave, gave up art for surveying, then became Mayor of Creille, tiny mountain village in the Maritime Alps," not far from Nice. There he ruled supreme, a benevolent despot. Fontenay, an English painter, meets Mayor Tombarel, falls under the spell of his courteous, charm, becomes a frequent visitor, a fast friend. In the shady garden of Tombarel's mountain house or in Fonte...
...smooth, well made, is a never-ending source of wonder to those acquainted with the facts of his career. For Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov did not begin life as a musician. He was sent to the Naval College at St. Petersburg as befitted the son of an aristocrat. For eleven years he served in the navy, on one cruise visited the U. S. But all that time his thoughts were on music-on the sort that a small Jewish band had played on his father's estate when he was a child, on Russian folk themes which were forming...