Word: gauntness
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...destroyed Andre Wasowski's nation, but it sent him on a concert tour which made him the most widely acclaimed young pianist in Europe. Last week Rome joined Vienna and Moscow in calling the gaunt, 25-year-old Polish pianist the greatest player of Chopin in modern times...
Couple Concerts. For serious balletomanes the event of the week was the return of Igor Youskevitch, a gaunt, fierce-eyed, 34-year-old Slav, the greatest contemporary male classic dancer...
...gaunt white-haired Scotsman named Archibald Campbell spoke of bagpipes in loving, Scottish terms: "You know of course they were invented by some fellow who . . . wanted to make noise, so he had the bright idea of killing a sheep, using its skin as a bag, and sticking a pipe in it. Then, of course, he just stuck more pipes in to make more noise...
...Neill, 57, gaunt, greying, his hands ashake with paralysis agitans, was in town for rehearsals of The Iceman Cometh (his first play on Broadway in twelve years). He said he had written nothing since 1943. "I hope to resume writing as soon as I can," said he, "but the war has thrown me completely off base.... I have to get back to a sense of writing being worthwhile. ... I'd have to pretend...
Burma this week had its third Royal Governor in two months. He was Major General Sir Hubert Elvin Ranee, tall, gaunt graduate of Sandhurst and an old Burma hand. But the new Governor would have to work miracles to bring order into the festering chaos...