Word: codicil
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...George VI in 1936). During part of that time she was engaged in her monumental harpsichord recording of the 48 rippling, finger-cracking preludes and fugues that constitute Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, which she called "my last will and testament." When she was persuaded to leave a codicil to that will, she turned again to the piano ("my first love") and to Mozart. She sighs: "Mozart was my first nature-but Bach, too. Oh, how can I combine these two gentlemen?" In making the recordings, which include some of Mozart's loveliest and most deceptively simple piano...
...Summer Day) by Berthe Morisot. A will drawn in 1913 by Sir Hugh, then director of Ireland's National Gallery, left the pictures to England. But before he went to his death aboard the torpedoed Lusitania off Cork in 1915, Sir Hugh added a codicil to his will giving the pictures to Ireland, provided that it built a suitable gallery for them within five years. The codicil was not witnessed, so it had no legal validity. But from the moment of Sir Hugh's death, the Irish began pressing their claim to the Lane pictures. In Dublin...
...noon the spellers were facing tougher words-esoteric, exorcism, codicil...
...complaints that it was not fair to require anyone to express his wishes about cremation in advance. Home Affairs Minister Louis J. M. Beel pleaded: "A codicil is a simple note ... 'I want my body to be burned,' date, signature, nothing more . . . One can carry it in his pocket or his wallet, one can put it in his desk. One can entrust it to his relatives or his cremation association . . . What's simpler than making a codicil...
...Providing two to three years' study at Oxford for students selected by special local committees in the U.S. and the British Commonwealth. In a codicil, Rhodes added a few scholarships for Germans-in the hope that they would benefit from the civilizing influence of Oxford...