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...sheer din, he was outdone later by Tchaikovsky, who scored his brassy 1812 Overture for full orchestra, bells, and a cannon...
Acenstomed in those past summers to the din and bustle of a massive heard of new registrants eager to speed up their college education, Mem Hall will feel the first indication of a postwar slack-off today when 264 new veteran students, returning undergraduates, and special students fill out the "necessary forms...
...tropical twilight of Ciudad Trujillo, the din of traffic along the sea front had hushed. A convoy of seven limousines drew up at the foot of the obelisk (white and floodlit like the Washington Monument), and from the car with the five-starred gold license plates stepped a beady-eyed little man. Bodyguards with their Tommy guns at the ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor...
...great joy of every panto player is the matchless exuberance of his audience. Last year Nervo & Knox, two fine slapstickers with 26 years in panto, so worked up their youthful audience against the Baron (Variety Artist Eddy Gray) that he could not speak his lines for the din; when Nervo yelled, "Come on, kids, let's kill the Baron," more than a hundred of them stormed on to the stage and stopped the show...
...wants to "dabble quietly before taking the plunge." The big money does hot excite her; she lives quite comfortably on her ?20 a week-top pay for The Company of Four-shares a house with two other women, a composer and a ballet dancer. The "horrible din" of their combined professional exercises doubtless explains why husband Philip Barrett continues to produce his road shows...