Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confusing scraps of paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular cello) and worked...
...Hilton's hotels is different from the others, together they form a rich pattern of 20th Century U.S. hotel life. In the U.S., more than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full life without ever going out of doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your...
...fine and he plans to start making it come true by building high-priced, small hotels in the smaller cities which were passed over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he does not think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where can you go from the Waldorf...
...scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons had never surrendered either their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even...
...movie is the occasion for a film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life...