Word: diapasonal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other top terraces are right where you think they'd be. In the hilltop neighborhood of Montmartre, breathtaking vistas of the Paris cityscape are a dime a dozen. But the panorama from the rooftop terrace of Le Diapason restaurant at Hotel Terrass (12 Rue Joseph-de-Maistre) is even more glorious than most. Then there's the tearoom at the Musée de la Vie Romantique (16 Rue Chaptal), with its enchanting patio sweetened by the smell of wisteria, lilacs and hollyhocks...
...advertisement in the February issue of The Diapason, an organ fanciers' monthly, said that the 35-year-old instrument is in good condition, but needs "releathering...
...three-manual affair that cost $11,500. It was a fine organ for its day, but before long, Fritz Mayer began to hanker for new tone colors and started a drive to get new stops. Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops-a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica...
With all his skilled eye for detail and his affectionate eye for human trivia, Churchill never lost sight of the main objective. When he speaks of that, casting up accounts as they stood in mid-1943, the Churchillian prose rolls with the old indomitable diapason: "The entry of the United States into the struggle . . . had made it certain that the cause of Freedom would not be cast away. But between survival and victory there are many stages . . . Henceforward . . . the danger was not Destruction but Stalemate [yet] the hinge had turned...
...mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press. Its editors were "nothing but working newspapermen who are tired of the 'Daily Wail,' the 'Unlucky Star,' the 'Scare Telegram' and the 'Terrible Times' . . . We are no journalistic ostriches and we do not deny the fact that our world today is full of misery and injustice ... All we want to do is show the other, more pleasant side of the picture...