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Word: brisking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Personally Kern is the antithesis of the layman's notion of a prosperous Tin Pan Alleyman. There is nothing dapper or brisk about him. He has frizzy grey hair, a beaklike nose down which his spectacles are always sliding. He hates fripperies. He never has been known to wear a new hat. He buys them from his friends when they are through with them. A clean piece of manuscript paper strikes terror to his heart. He writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Show Boat | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...assumption that the U. S. masses prefer their music light and syncopated, the Roxy cinemansion in Manhattan dismissed its symphony orchestra four months ago, installed Fred Waring and his jazz-making "Pennsylvanians." Fred Waring put on a series of brisk, comic turns but last week at Roxy's great waves of applause greeted every showing of an announcement that the symphony orchestra would be reinstated. Hugo Riesenfeld, leading pioneer for "good" cinema music. would be conductor. Good music had thus won a victory likely to have results in movie houses all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cinema Music | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...Brisk, blonde and beauteous, Anna Sten's confidence was not entirely unreasonable. When she arrived in Hollywood last week it was the beginning of her third cinema career. When her father, a Russian ballet master, died, Anna, then 12, helped to support the family in Kiev. At 15 she got into the Soviet Film Academy. Three years later, Sovkino sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...entrance was dignified, unflurried. Stokowski fairly flew from the wings. But then Stokowski had a longer first lap. He had the gloomy Fourth Symphony of Finnish Jan Sibelius to get through with, whereas Koussevitzky had only a trifling piece by Corsican Henri Martelli. Stokowski's pace was brisk but with odds so against him it was not surprising that Koussevitzky was ready first to start on the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's new Piano Concerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravel Race | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...rest of the large Freshman rowing group has been divided into two divisions for the present, but it is expected that frequent interchange of seatings will take place in the next few weeks. In the University shells a brisk competition is taking place between C. F. Hovey '32, Edward Yeomans, Jr. '33, and F. F. Colloredo Mansfield '34 for the number two slide on the first boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN LIGHTWEIGHT OARSMEN ARE SELECTED | 4/12/1932 | See Source »

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