Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure young cellist of 19, playing in the orchestra at the Rio de Janeiro opera. One night the regular leader was unable to appear and some one suddenly thought of the quiet little Italian who never used a score. Toscanini went to the stand in a borrowed frock coat many sizes too big, conducted Aida completely from memory. Lately an aged Brazilian critic attempted to describe the perfection of that performance. Toscanini's comment: "Ah, but he is wrong. I made two mistakes, one in the first act, another in the third...
...courtroom to hear what was still to be said. The great columned chamber was jammed with notables. Down in front sat Pennsylvania's George Wharton Pepper, counsel for Hoosac Mills, with his client, Mr. Butler, beside him. Farther back sat Mrs. Pepper with an admiring eye on her frock-coated husband. On hand for the fun was Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman. Senator Costigan of Colorado had to stand. Down in front sat Attorney General Cummings and near him Solicitor General Stanley Reed who was to argue for the Government. The nine old gentlemen swished into their places...
Before the Vagabond had time to answer, the March Hare was already down the ladder and the Hatter was anxiously looking for his hat and Alice was putting on her prettiest little frock. "There is nothing I can do about it now", thought the Vagabond "I suppose I'll have to take them along with...
While Premier Bennett anguished and Premier Aberhart communed at Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
Perky, wiry Theodore Metz, 87, occupies a desk in the Manhattan offices of Edward B. Marks Music Corp. He speaks with a thick German accent, looks like an oldtime German music master with his white mustache, flowing necktie and fusty frock coat. Puttering about in the music business, Theodore Metz began last week to celebrate-a little ahead of time-the 50th anniversary of the composition of his No. 1 song, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...