Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JUNE MOON?The weird and ludicrous creatures who write the nation's songs...
Harvard is afflicted beyond most colleges with this aggravation of the trivial. With few exceptions, the press selects anti-Harkness Lampoons, weird Socialist pronouncements, and the peccadilloes of one club, as its Harvard news. The domestic affairs of Harvard are paraded; the legitimate news is buried under the indifference of the press...
German Novelist Leonhard Frank adapted this play from his novel of the same name. Despite the subtle services of Alice Brady, making her Guild debut, and of Otto Kruger and Frank Conroy, the weird passion of Karl and Anna remains fabulous, as insubstantial as the fictions of Graustark...
...Egypt it was called the as-it and was piped ceremonially. In Rome it was called tibia utricularis. Colleges were formed for its instruction; Nero piped. Invading Romans took it to Britain. Early Britons named it the chorus. Itinerant pipers carried it farther into the Highlands and Iceland. The weird Asiatic music appealed to Celtic and Gaelic imaginations and stuck with them...
...Jacob Epstein's weird London sculptures (Rima, Night, etc.) have caused acrid controversy throughout England (TIME, July...