Word: drags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drury Lane Theater, he explained: "I am taking no chances with not getting artistic unity where my favorite composer is concerned. . . . Bruno Walter once told me there were only two people who could play a Mozart concerto-and he was one of them. Wild horses won't drag the other name from me. . . . The combination of my wife and myself is one that cannot be duplicated in 24 hours." Quipped the London Star, in a cartoon next day: "I have got tickets for Sir Thomas Beecham's next speech. I hear he will also conduct some music." Impresario...
...hard to fly. They have the basic advantage of being able to rise and descend vertically, avoiding the high-speed take-offs and landings which are the cause of many airplane accidents. But they have special hazards and problems of their own. There are four factors (thrust, weight, drag and lift) which must be kept in proper balance. A helicopter has two sticks controlling the main rotor. There are also the throttle and rudder pedals. All these must be managed with perfect coordination. A helicopter cannot be stalled like an airplane, but if the power is cut too much...
...Mother of Us All turned out to be Proto-Feminist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). But Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras-notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson). Another, born of her delight with G.I.s, was called Jo the Loiterer. Hapless Andrew Johnson turned up, groaning throughout, "It's cold weather . . . wherever I am." And John Adams sniffed, "Do not pity me; I am an Adams and not pitiable...
...There is only one thing for which I am too old and that is to drag Churchill across the Channel is chains," Roosevelt is depicted as saying at one point...
...Baron Egmont van Zuylen van Nuyvelt's apartment. The Baron & friends, in a hot game of gin rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...