Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innocence abroad, even about the unpredictable political behavior of Americans, is possibly less than is supposed by some innocents at home. What perhaps shocked Europeans as much as the immediate political implications of The Speech was the complete lack of grand style in the official conduct of the world's No. 1 power. For greatness of responsibility implies greatness in performance...
...fashions. (Items: a baby blue fur coat, a $50 hand-painted bathing suit, a girdle decorated with cherubs lolling on clouds.) Cole of California readied an aquacade, Catalina Mills had a Catalina Island beach show, Tabak of California was going to parade his models on the rim of the Grand Canyon...
Down: Two Generals. Thirty-eight miles to the north, at the same time, in the decaying grandeur of Saratoga Springs' rambling Grand Union Hotel, Republican straw bosses went through their well-trained paces. But they had only one problem: who for Senator...
...days of Strauss waltzes and the musical "grand manner." every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt...
...Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with...