Word: gauntness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the conference could by no means be labeled Red, it did spotlight one radical: gaunt, sharp-faced, reddish-haired Harry Ward, 66, famed for his persistent defense of Russia and" Communism. Said Fellow Traveler Ward at the conference dinner: "The holy war abroad to save civilization and God from the atheist barbarians is also the holy war at home to save democracy from the Reds, to rescue Christ from the anti-Christ of materialistic Marxism. These are more powerful slogans than those which deceived and betrayed us into the slaughter of 1917. The leading voices of European imperialism...
Franklin Roosevelt, President of the U. S., sat at his desk pondering U. S. history. In his mind was a winter day in 1815, when a tall, gaunt man with small, hot eyes, heading a motley horde of volunteers, whipped the British at the Battle of New Orleans...
...gaunt, Boston esthete and dance man, Lincoln Kirstein, decided that the U. S. needed home-grown ballet. Rich Balletomaniac Kirstein pooled funds with Edward M. M. Warburg (son of Banker Felix Warburg), got together a bevy of young U. S. ballet dancers, and hired famed Russian Dance Master George Balanchine to teach them. Impresarios Kirstein and Warburg started their venture as a school. But it soon grew into a fledgling ballet troupe, known as the American Ballet...
...gaunt, dark-eyed man in a skullcap and ermine-trimmed robe, Franklin Roosevelt had written a letter for Christmas, remembering perhaps how that man's long pale hands had twisted with painful earnestness when they talked together of world peace three years...
Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow's Imperial Grand Theatre. Muscovite socialites liked the way he conducted. But Sergei Rachmaninoff had other fish to fry. Not only was he Russia's best pianist, but also the composer of three operas, a symphony, two piano concertos and a sheaf of smaller and more popular operas. One of these, the "Flatbush" Prelude in C Sharp Minor, had already swept the world, made his name a byword among people who never went...