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...making love to Cho-Cho-San. Curving melody flows from the orchestra while he sings, "Just like a little squirrel are all her pretty movements." To many Tristan would seem foolish delivering a literal translation of his part in the exalted love duet. The music would be reaching its grandest climax while he would be singing, "Thou Isolde, Tristan I. No more Tristan, no more Isolde...
Toby pulled a large scrap book out of a dresser drawer and laughingly revealed clippings of the pictures taken on her recent trip to Cambridge to review the Hasty Pudding chorus. Her comments were enthusiastic. "They were all the grandest bunch of boys," she exclaimed. "The ones I met were all very nice and awfully good looking. They didn't seem at all embarassed to life their skirts for the cameramen when the pictures were taken. I really had a lot of fun and enjoyed every minute of my visit...
...skies. Every piano student knew the pieces by Gluck, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt. But fresh cause for wonder were Hofmann's dazzling arpeggios, the flying double octaves, the countless tonal colors. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times next day: "It was playing of the grandest and most compelling sort...
...health the brother of the late William Howard Taft was announcing his retirement within the year as headmaster of Taft School. In a profession studded with Grand Old Men. Headmaster Taft at 73 shares with Groton's Endicott Peabody (TIME, Oct. 28) the distinction of being the grandest of them all. A distinguished, kindly man,'"Brother Horace" has the Taft good humor, the Taft chuckle, the flowing Taft mustache. But because he is six feet six and spare, he looks less like his rotund brother than like that other late great jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...went to Davis Tuttle, perceptive, philosophical columnist of the Caldwell Record of Lenoir, N. C., for what Country Home considered "the grandest piece of individual thinking and writing we have come upon for years": "Last night I thought I heard a pack of foxhounds running, but as the sound came nearer I realized it was a flock of wild geese flying out of the north...