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Word: creamiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street, a symphony conductor is somebody who flops his arms in a sweating frenzy while others do the job. His are the most spectacular tantrums the music world allows, the greatest adulation and the creamiest financial reward it bestows. Yet he scrapes not, neither does he toot, thump nor sing. How does anybody know whether he can even read music? Yet at the end of the concert it is he who takes the bows, not the laboring instrumentalists over whom he presides. Is his a job, or a racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Maestro | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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