Word: idylle
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The three older children, Jenny, Dottie and Joel, whose actions have importance in the unfolding of the story, are followed through critical phases of their lives. Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off...
"Even so, such tags provide interesting material for a study of the times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct...
In 1891, when Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky returned to St. Petersburg to rest after conducting his own moody music during a tour of Europe, he was requested to write something for the Imperial Theatres. With his brother Modeste as librettist, weary Piotr Ilyitch sat down and produced his last opera, lolanthe...
As a frame for juxtapositional drama of the type that came into fashion with Grand Hotel, a fashionable dinner party is ideal. As a frame for one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last...
In the U. S. Negroes were vexed with this northern idyll. Grumbled The Crisis, race paper: "Deliberate discourtesy. . . No invitation was extended to Mat Henson, the faithful colored companion and servant of Peary and his only comrade when he discovered the Pole. . . . Rude.''