Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Darby learned the boilermaker's trade in his father's small shop, was a combat artillery captain in World War I, and on his father's death in 1923 brashly borrowed $120,000 from a bank to buy and improve his father's boiler shop, groomed it into a rich and versatile steel-fabricating company...
...Yugoslavs also released the suicide notes of Father Nekliudov to show that he had really died by his own hand. To his wife (if the notes were genuine) the priest had written: "My Veronika, forgive me. Goodbye . . . Those who are 'creating history' [are to blame], and perhaps not even they." To his court and jailers: "I blame nobody . . . Food was good." To his prosecutor: "The wheel of history has passed over a worm." To God: "How stupid it is. Before my life's end, I am lunching and dining and taking exercise . . . God, where...
...called Prensa and Nación reporters forward to sign statements attesting to the contents. The statement, dated July 6, 1946 (a month after Perón took office), said simply that his assets then consisted of the San Vicente quinta, a Packard and a share in his father's modest estate...
...favorite, Mozart. "Some so-called wizards of the baton," he wrote, "play Beethoven and Mozart finales as though they were riding a shying horse and had lost the reins." Strauss also felt that he himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel [one of his most frequently played works], 1,000 marks...
...Strauss's most difficult productions to get on the boards was his Salome, written in 1903. Asked to play the lead, Soprano Marie Wittich at first refused with the explanation: "I can't do this; I'm a decent woman." Even the composer's father had his doubts, the son remembered. "Mein Gott," he exclaimed, "what nervous music! It makes me feel as though my pants were full of grabbling May bugs...