Word: coversations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In fear & trembling most of Montreal went about repeating Samuel Butler's words last week. POW! WHEEE! FUMP! For three long hours manhole covers burst from their settings, hurtled through the air, followed by 20-ft. comets of flame. The first covey of covers was flushed on the Boulevard...
The Author- Dorothy Whipple was born some 30-odd years ago, in the midst of her Lancashire material, even more in the midst of a large & lively family. Grown-up enough to do her bit when the War came, she tried to be a Red Cross nurse, but ''...
THE revised edition of the second volume of the Oxford History of Music covers the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of musical history in Europe, beginning with the formation of schools in England, France, and the Gallo-Belgic Provinces. With the limits of the subject set up as described, it follows...
The period covered is of tremendous importance in the development of music in general, and of church music in particular. Moreover the book has a truly musical structure in that space is devoted more to the printing of the compositions themselves than to the discussion of them. The reader may...
Mr. Eliot is here chiefly concerned with the sanity and breadth of Dryden's genius, and the influence of those qualities of the poet on English poetry from his day to our own. In the first essay of the book he says: "It was Dryden who for the first time...