Word: fustianeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the appearance of his new version of "Pictures at an Exhibition," Horowitz, completely the master of his instrument, of his audience, and of the music he played, was magnificent. It was an orgiastic reincarnation of Franz Liszt holding all Europe spellbound with his fustian brilliance. And from there on the concert retained that atmosphere. The last ensore, Horowitz's own variations on Mendelssohn's Wedding March--a composition completely Lisztian in its blend of bombast and puckishness--was the perfect bravura curtain line for the whole exhibition. Horowitz the genius; Horowitz...
Before the hour expired, the Duce, who in his fustian prime had bellowed to his followers, "If I retreat, kill me!" was in headlong flight. At 9 p.m. he reached Como near the Swiss border. At 2 a.m. Thursday he sent an envoy to ask Swiss authorities to grant asylum to his wife, Donna Rachele, and their children. The Swiss emphatically declined. About 6 a.m. Mussolini sneaked northward presumably in the hope of reaching Germany. According to one report he joined a German truck convoy trying unsuccessfully to disguise himself in a German officer's overcoat. He was spotted...
...impervious sincerity Actress Cornell remains untouched by this fustian, makes Elizabeth Barrett not only a very appealing heroine but a conceivable human being...
...session. Then, perhaps, he had conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing his power on condition that his personal safety be assured. Another rumor had him and his chief party colleagues arrested while seeking escape to Germany, then put under house guard near Rome...
...First cannonading away at The Skin of Our Teeth's "borrowed" form, characters, plot elements, they followed up with scholarly small shot, including the charge that "the great swathing of scarfs and wrappings" of Wilder's Mr. Antrobus (see cut) looked like the "caoutchouc kepi and . .. blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberized inverness" of Joyce's H. C. Earwicker...