Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemies as Camille Saint-Saëns and baffled occasional defenders like Ambroise (Mignon) Thomas. Said Thomas: "How can you describe a symphony as in the key of D minor when the principal theme at the ninth bar goes into D flat, at the tenth C flat, at the 21st F sharp minor...
...days later, with the story whipping around Paris, Emmanuel was called by an "embarrassed" official and told that the Consul-General, Mr. Gray wanted to speak to him. On the 21st, Gray promised Emmanuel that he would ask for a special priority, but, would not predict what the State Department would decide. "I said I did not want any favor: just the ordinary routine. It was impossible for me to wait longer: I had then made up my mind not to go to the States... I did not want to be a suspected person ... on the FBI files...
...sleety Washington rain, two black official limousines rolled down 21st Street, driving well beyond the main entrance of the Department of State to turn sharply down a side ramp into State's naked concrete loading basement. Burly Defense Secretary Louis Johnson stepped from his Cadillac into a private elevator, punched the button for the fifth floor. Across the basement General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dressed in civilian grey, got out of his car, strode briskly across the floor and got into a second private elevator...