Word: byword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for this is to be sought in the turning of newer composers of Italy from the traditional operatic form to symphonic music. Certainly there is a recent great increase in the demand?in America at least?for Italian orchestral compositions. Italian symphonic music was for centuries a byword for insignificance, but the new modernists of the peninsula are pushing forward at a great rate. Many of the copyrights on their works, however, are held by German and Austrian publishers, since Italian publishers have generally regarded symphonic publications as a loss of money...
...Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operates the largest steamer, the "Araguya", playing between New York and Bermuda. The ship is a palatial liner of seventeen thousand five hundred tons displacement and the luxurious appointments of the ship are a byword with travellers...