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...foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable for its clarity and restraint; and in the jolly "Orpheus himself may heave his head" her own humor was crisp and sparkling...
...Republican strongholds. By his own estimate, he shook some 300,000 hands; he turned up at so many political and civic luncheons and dinners that he gained ten pounds. Backed by a Democratic kitty estimated at $800,000, he appeared on scores of radio and television spots, made a crisp, pleasing impression...
...Tigers were strangely cowed through their whole performance last night, but the Harvard Glee Club turned in crisp renditions that put the rival chorus at an even greater disadvantage than they would have suffered singing alone...
...setback while the Justice Party, drawing supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes, showed considerable strength. In the wake of these results, as the parties maneuvered to form a new government, the country's top military brass* gathered ominously in Ankara. Out to the politicians went an invitation as crisp as a parade-ground command: form a coalition government of all major parties, with Gursel as President, or face a military takeover...
...croft. The terrier followed his master to town, sat by his side while he died in a dismal padding ken, followed his coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard, plumped himself down on the old man's grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp) bellowed, and booted him out the gate. But that night and every night Bobby sneaked back in to sleep on his master's grave, soon became such an object of civic admiration in Edinburgh that the Lord High Commissioner awarded him the Freedom of the City, and the right perpetual...