Word: alsatian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop the Presses. In Glasgow, Henry Strachan got mad at an Alsatian dog, made news...
...successor was something of a surprise, but not a shock. Koussevitzky's 29-year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
After 50 hours of vain efforts to get his ship off the Goodwins, Captain Ruocco sorrowfully went ashore with his crew of 28, two German stowaways and an Alsatian pup. Later he came back to the ship, hoping to jettison the heavy lead cargo. Tide and weather thwarted him. Sturdy little Dover tugs buzzed about the Silvia Onorato, greedy for salvage. But at week's end, the insatiable Goodwins* still held their prize. Said a lifeboat man with a touch of local pride: "I think the Goodwins got her for good...
Overcoat & Broth. In the little Alsatian village of Günsbach, where he grew up, Albert Schweitzer's schoolmates looked on him as "a sprig of the gentry" because he was the parson's son. To be set apart from the other boys was an agony to him; he suffered many a whipping rather than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then...
...review had barely hit the newsstands when the conductor's wife brushed into La Hora's office and stood before Critic Goldschmidt's desk. Madame Paray, a blonde and ample Alsatian, is about 20 years younger than her husband. She is also a loyal wife. For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German. Sighed Goldschmidt as she left: "A real Valkyrie...