Word: compatriot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guides and hosts to the group of sailors in their tour of Harvard. Their was no difficulty about language was every one of the fifteen spoke excellent English which bore little resemblance to the "I tank I bane go home; I vant to be alone" of their famous compatriot, Grets Garbo...
...continent. To the always confident British this was not surprising. But the only reasonable explanation for the Italians' hasty retreat on all fronts was either that the Italians had lost their military minds or that Benito Mussolini had taken a leaf from the book of an ancient compatriot, Quintus Fabius Maximus...
Bartolc: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (Bela Bartok, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Benny Goodman, clarinet; Columbia: 4 sides). Hungarian Composer Bartok (see p. 45) wrote these paprika-pungent pieces in 1938, expressly for his good compatriot-friend Szigeti and Szigeti's good Midwestern friend Goodman...
...Linea, Spain, in sight of Gibraltar, the 10,000-ton Italian liner Chelind and a smaller compatriot were scuttled when the crews heard the news of war. The Capo Noli (3,921 tons), running down...
...Washington, at a reverent chamber-music festival, Composer Bartók at the piano collaborated with an eminent friend and compatriot, Violinist Joseph Szigeti (pronounced zig-get´ty), in his First Rhapsody and Second Sonata. The same pair gave the Rhapsody a repeat performance in Manhattan. The Philadelphia Orchestra played two "Bartók Images, fairly easy on the ears. The League of Composers had scheduled an all-Bartók concert in Manhattan for this week, once again with "Bartók and Szigeti on the stage...