Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manno Wolf-Ferrari usually conducts at Venice's La Fernice opera house. In Paris, three French conductors joined the pit orchestra, just to get the hang of Italian opera from "Little Manno." If they learned nothing from his fine, sure beat, they learned something about making do in an emergency. On opening night Manno dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said...
...blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...
...made him a member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...
Those words, addressed "to the Terrorists of Palestine," first appeared in full-page ads in the New York Herald Tribune and other U.S. papers last month. The ad asked millions for "medical relief and humanitarian aid." It concluded: "Hang on, brave friends, our money...
...than a quarter of a century, his legendary figure has flitted through Middle Eastern oil deals. Bald, beak-nosed and now 79, Gulbenkian is such a well-known operator that oilmen refer to him simply as "G." Despite two wars and slippery international oil politics, G has managed to hang on to his 5% interest in Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd., which has brought him a fortune variously estimated at $200 to $800 million and annual royalties of some...