Word: conrades
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...bucket in this case is worn by Conrad Castiletz, an upper-middle-class Viennese businessman whose ordered life is shattered by the death of a woman he has never met. After a lonely, long-drawn adolescence, Conrad becomes an exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever...
...Barnaby Conrad, author of Encyclopedia of Bullfighting, had flown down from San Francisco for the fight and dropped in to say hello, wearing a sweatshirt adorned with a picture of Manolete. At last, El Cordobés put on his sequined jacket of violet silk, and the blonde emerged from the bathroom, where she had been softly crying. He flipped her on the behind with a towel, and she smiled. Then someone shouted, "Ay, Matador!" and it was off to the Plaza in a roar of police motorcycles...
...years to three months. He does not feel that this produces the world's best piano, but with a shrewd eye for publicity he can point to the fact that his pianos are already used by Composer (Guys & Dolls) Frank Loesser, Fred Astaire, Guy Lombardo, and some of Conrad Hilton's hotels...
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Soprano Joan Sutherland and Dancers Suzanne Farrell and Conrad Ludlow. Color...
...this characteristically brutal self-appraisal, Aiken almost dispels the need for further criticism of his work. Conrad Aiken is not a great novelist. By every time-honored (or shall we say time-worn) criterion of criticism--characterization, plot, style--he is a failure...