Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death of a Favorite and Defection of a Favorite are sardonic studies of ambition in the hinterlands. A Midwest farm-country curate itches for his aged pastor's post as rabidly as if it were a cardinal's red hat. Only after he trips over all his political guide wires does the curate acquire a saving measure of humility. The two tales are notable not only for Powers' quiplash irony ("Scratch a prelate and you'll find a second baseman") but for being told in the first person by the parish house cat, an unlikely...
Symphony tonight will include Beethoven's Overture to Collin's drama "Coriolan," dances from "The Three Cornered Hat" by Falla (not to be confused with ecstatic Eleanor's Fellas), Dvorak's violin concerto in B minor, and Bohuslav Martinu's Sixth Symphony, which gets its premiere. Leonard Rose, soloist...
...clever. Setting himself up as a "real skeptic," he plunges into each subject with the determination of a bloodhound. Of hypnosis he had thought, "That's strictly for the lunatic fringe." However, by ecclectically drawing from whatever sources he can find, or as he puts it, "doffing my hat" to the experts, Bernstein soon discovers hypnosis...
...McCord was not at a loss for words. He replied: "Dear Mr. Griscom/ You are good/ Your Pax Vobiscum/ Is understood/ Your children three/ Will soon be scholars/ Till then your free/ No duns for dollars/ For even we'll/ Remember that/ It isn't leal/ To pass the hat/ Until your boy/ Has got his growth/ What then: O joy/ We'll get you both...
Captain George Higginbottom was the big gun for the freshmen as his hat trick proved to be the winning margin between the two teams. Dick Reilly, Dick McLaughlin, and Pete Kelley each contributed single goals. The victory brought the team's season record...