Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gently as I could, I told Mrs. Rommel that I had the war diaries, that I had learned about her birthday, and that I knew all about the shoes. I felt no elation at showing my hand to this charming woman. Mrs. Rommel was a grand loser. She rose from her chair. "I sincerely hope, Mr. Ryan," she said, "that you do not intend to harm my husband's reputation with this story." Then she said: "I'll show you the shoes," and left the room. Mrs. Rommel returned. In her hand were the grey suede shoes-platform...
...opened, Paris critics were officially reminded that a French head of state has the privilege of seeing all new performances first; so, in "deference to General de Gaulle," the critics should hold up their first-night reviews until he could get to the theater on the second night. The grand opening of the opera fortnight ago, where Maria Callas had once complained, "I am not going to sing in those dusty decors," was the most glittering in history. Outside, the Republican Guard stood with sabers drawn while onstage Carmen was performed with the aid of 40 horses and a monkey...
...Eastern National Livestock Show in Timonium, Md., virtually all honors in the Devon bull competition were swept by a Western cattleman. His bulls took blue ribbons for Grand Champion bull, Best Pair of bulls and Best Bull Calf. Owner: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse...
...script, written by Karl Tunberg, and touched up by S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry, is well ordered, and its lines sometimes sing with good rhetoric and quiet poetry. The actors, for the most part, play in the grand manner, but with controlled firmness. Actor Boyd carries off the prize with a virile portrayal of Messala, and Hugh...
...world of space-spanning shells. For Ehime's convention hall, he tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5,000. His Tokyo City Hall this year received the first International Grand Prix awarded by France's Architecture d'Aujourd...