Word: graf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PAUL D. GRAF New Haven, Conn...
Almost visibly and audibly gnashing their teeth, the Communists denounced the West-sector elections as "illegal" because of "fraud and terror." They blocked mail deliveries across the East-West line.* They put East Berlin's fire department under their tough police chief, Paul Mark-graf, to make sure that it would not go to any non-Communist fires. They set up new restrictions against automotive traffic, and even withdrew railway cars which had served West Berlin for garbage removal...
...racy spoken word. But many still survive. The late, great Editor William Rockhill Nelson barred the word snake from his Kansas City Star because he thought readers couldn't take it at the breakfast table. Colonel Bertie McCormick has let some of his simplified-spelling decrees lapse (foto-graf has been compromised into photo-graf), but his Chicago Tribune still uses monolog, tho, frate...
...audience had never seen Orpheus treated so splendidly. Veteran Salzburg critic Max Graf was not being intentionally sarcastic when he said that Bruno Walter's severe 1932 version "was only greater vocally...
...depth of great art does not exist for one moment in the work of Shostakovich, only the spirit, the colored robe and the sparkling flexibility of virtuosity." - Max Graf, Modern Music...