Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music critic, he kept right on attacking weak flanks. He fired his potshots impartially at the great & small. He denounced Erich Kleiber and Eugene Ormandy for sloppy guest -conducting, upbraided Chilean tenors and Uruguayan baritones for untalented concertizing. The daily pounding put Chilean artists and musicians on their guard; it also raised Santiago's music standards considerably...
...Princeton, last week's academic blow-out capped what one guest, the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, called "a whole year of unremitting celebration." The fourth oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...
Parisians were as interested in La Scala's guest conductor as in its standout singers. The conductor was slight, thirtyish Manno Wolf-Ferrari, nephew of one of Italy's last surviving big-name operatic composers, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne...
...would station guards. Along roads and streets where the President would ride (in an armored, bulletproof car shipped from Washington), the Secret Service men made notes on sharp turns, dangerous intersections, rough spots where cautious driving would be necessary. At Chateau Laurier, where the President would be an honor guest at a state luncheon, they interviewed the waiters. At Governor General Alexander's Rideau Hall, they even insisted on inspecting the rooms where the Trumans would sleep...
...This optimism caused The Wall Street Journal to observe: "The . . . recession has the exact characteristics of the standard two-headed calf. As everyone knows, that animal is always in the next county, never in this one. ... A mild recession that dispels the boom psychology will be a welcome guest...