Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love in the Snow," Boston's latest musical romance, draws brazenly on a wide variety of sources, and imitates many more. It runs the gamut from Victor Herbert through Gilbert and Sullivan and Guiseppi Verdi, and ends on a climactic rendition of "Vesti La Giubba." The surprising thing is that the sum total is not chaos, but a lively and tuneful evening's entertainment. Though strongly reminiscent of past musical hits, and in part admitted cribbing, Ralph Benatzky's score is pleasant and melodious. It has to be, to compensate for uninspired lyrics and a book exceeding even the broad...
...days the United Nations turned a blueprint into a going concern. Fifty-one nations, spanning the gamut of race, color, language and tradition, had to concur. They did-with ultimate unanimity. How long and with what travail would it have taken Congress to complete a comparable task...
...earn its reputation as a strong union town, Seattle ran a grim gamut of labor trouble, from a bitter citywide general strike (1919) to bloody waterfront wars (1934). Last week a strike made news which the newspapers could not report...
From the time he entered the Kozlany village school through his Gymnasium and university years in Prague and Paris, Benes was a dervish for study. At 16, the once pious Catholic boy had turned into an unkempt dogmatist. By the time he was 19, he had run the gamut of the philosophies of extremism, from Sorelian violence to Marxian materialism. Then he encountered Thomas Masaryk...
...Chinese first compiled a glossary of 219 ideographical combinations to cover the abstract words of San Francisco, running the gamut of international cooperation, from ad hoc to Yalta. By last week the glossary had tripled in size...