Word: bravoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bravo to Herbert V. Kohler and his stand against Reuther and his U.A.W. They've got completely out of hand; most of our internal problems, including recessions, are directly traceable to the bad aspects of unionism...
...sprig of Dior's favorite flower, lily of the valley, on her suit. But as the third model sashayed out, sudden applause for the new Dior line crashed through the cream-and-gilt rooms. It kept up for two more hours and 175 more models. Cries of "bravo, bravo!" broke out at the finale, a model marching by in a bridal gown. When Saint-Laurent himself appeared, mothered by his two weeping associates, Mme. Raymonde and Mme. Marguerite, the blushing youth was mobbed. Reporters squeezed his hand, kissed his cheeks, pushed him to an outside balcony, where he waved...
...Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests in all the best literary teapots. "Bravo!" cried Graham Greene. "A delight," said Bertrand Russell (who was once more or less described by Poet Eliot as an "irresponsible foetus...
...Bravo to Rector Kinsolving for saying, "Hell is a damnable doctrine ... is responsible for a large measure of the world's hatred [Dec. 30]." He has the courage to preach the beliefs that others in the clergy don't even dare to admit to their parishioners...
...bellowed "Bravo!" for your Dec. 23 roundup story on music. I'm glad you stressed the country's community orchestras; they are doing a whale of a job. More than 2,250,000 people have attended the Los Angeles Bureau of Music's late spring, summer and early fall band concerts. The community-sing attendance is well over the million mark, despite the once-crippling inroads of television. We sponsor a citywide "Artists of the Future" youth voice contest and an avocational civic "pops" orchestra. Dig under the films, TV, radio and records, and the blandishments...