Word: der
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows that der Professor is afraid of and troubled by the world which makes a hero...
...exhibition this fall is the result of favorable comment upon a similar exhibit held last year in Barcelona, by the Branhaus when they represented Germany in the International Exhibition. Among their artists are Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Von der Rohe...
...members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...
Best cinematography?Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker (With Byrd at the South Pole...
Wagner used the legend of the Flying Dutchman for his fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die Götterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long...