Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have an extra amount of wisdom, and it's really there. . . . When I used to sing nursery rhymes to her, she would try to pick out the notes on the piano. Then on St. Patrick's Day last year, she crawled up on the piano bench and played Mary Had a Little Lamb all the way through. I phoned a couple of our friends so they could hear...
...curly black hair, Margaret made her debut as a concert pianist last week in Chicago's Carey Temple (African Methodist Episcopal). She gave the audience a curtsy, saw that her doll Rosezarian was seated on a chair beside the grand piano, then clambered up on the bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces, including Schubert's Ave Maria and Brahms's Cradle...
Inside, members and lucky strangers sat through a dull "Question Time." It was just ending when Clement Attlee slipped in, scarcely noticed. Ernest Bevin, for one, did not see him. Bevin was on his feet answering a foreign policy question. Attlee slid down the bench just in time to avoid his Foreign Secretary's 240-lb. bulk as Bevin took a pace back, prepared to sit down...
Besides nine men on the field, Dodger opponents have to reckon with a snarling, hooting, heckling row of benchwarmers. Said Manager Burt Shotton: "I'll tell you how we won the St. Louis series. The bench won it." What the exuberant Dodgers seemed to need is not so much a manager as a father. In mild, 62-year-old Burt Shotton, they have just...
Tory Edward Legge-Bourke rose and cried: "Today there are right honorable gentlemen sitting on the Government front" bench who are drunk. . . ." Shouts drowned his words. When order was restored, Legge-Bourke explained: "I was going to say, had I been given a chance to finish my sentence, that I consider the right honorable gentlemen on the other side of the House are drunk with power...