Word: crotchets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being has to watch the language. It lives and changes constantly, with the development of new words and expressions and new uses for old words and expressions. Keeping up with the language in this week's TIME: aminotriazole. Bad for Thanksgiving. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.). crotchet. A quarter note. See Music, Family Orchestra...
...Last week's concert included, in addition to the Beethoven selection, Mozart's Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Orchestra, Chausson's Poem for Violin and Orchestra, the overture to Rossini's Barber of Seville. The orchestra negotiated all of them with every minim and crotchet in place," and with a typical air of lyric enthusiasm...
...small, humble and private thing"), Wilson would like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet: he does not own a gray flannel suit ("I won't have one in the house"), although clothiers have offered to outfit him with enough gray flannel suits "to last a lifetime...
Perhaps she'll forgive an old man's crotchet...