Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salzedo. Dark, wizened and peppery at 70, Salzedo claims that most of the 9,000 harpists in the U.S. are his students, "grandstudents or great-grandstudents," i.e., his students' students taught them. When he sounds the call for a festival, all the harpists who can wangle invitations are eager to come. Explained one: "I always sound better when he's conducting." Looking over his ensemble last week, Salzedo snorted: "Unfortunately, men in this country do not like the refined things of life. So people think the harp effeminate, and not many men play...
...rendezvous. There, between amateur theatricals, impromptu concerts and Welsh-rarebit feasts, Henri preached a two-fisted approach to painting, drove home his lessons with references to the exciting "modern" works of Courbet and Manet-plus such old masters as Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Goya and Velásquez. Soon his eager listeners, including such star pupils as William Glackens, Everett Shinn. George Luks and John Sloan, were spending their off hours carrying out Henri's advice: "Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life...
...prosperity-and nobody wants that. Ford Motor Co.'s management has every determination to arrive at a fair agreement in the best interests of our employees, our company, the automobile industry and the public at large. We believe our employees are realistic and sensible people, and just as eager as we are for the continuation of what has been a generally happy and profitable period. We wish we could be sure that all union leaders feel the same...
Interpretative Reporting. In Sacramento, angry Motorist Ernest M. Blackburn was hauled off to jail after he refused to sign the traffic citation he received for driving too slowly unless Traffic Officer Ernest Jasper agreed to prefix his own signature with "Eager Beaver...
Freshman heavies: Captain Honry Jordan, stroke; Stewart Hussey, seven; Geoffrey Locke, sex; Howard Dickinson, five; Charles Atkinson, four; John Eager, three; John Ellefson, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Reed Bement, coxswain