Word: high-strung
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...York Hippodrome three blocks from where the proud Metropolitan had been begging for its life. The Hippodrome seats were cheap (99? top). So was the quality of the performances. But listeners for the season topped 1,000,000. The impresario was Alfredo Salmaggi, a longhaired, high-strung Italian who taught the late Queen Margherita to play the mandolin, carries Caruso's silver-headed cane and specializes in Aïida with horses, elephants, camels...
...been alert and slick, primed to the pink by kennelmen looking to reputation and profits through wins in the No. 1 U. S. dog show. Now dogs and handlers lolled together in the cramped boxes, panting in unison. But there was still enough spirit left in the terriers and high-strung German Shepherds to keep the basement a yapping bedlam...
...Paraguay fighting again, as they have fought off & on for 50 years. Munoz proved to be a very comfortable fort. Females, who made it home for Bolivia's heroes, numbered more than 150. There was even a cinema theatre and drinks were of the best. "Our soldiers are high-strung and enthusiastic over their victory," dot-dashed a Paraguayan military telegrapher. "They scarcely mention the truce in their conversations...
...Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel mill and playing a violin in a cinema house, held the world's championship title in 1927 and 1930. Ponzi is an Italian whose greying black hair belies his 30 years. High-strung' always ready to take chances on the table, Ponzi is popular as a spectacular player. Eastern "wise money" was on him to win. During the entire game, which ran for 2 hr. 10 min. without a moment's intermission, Ponzi and Rudolph neither looked at each other...
Based on the culmination of centuries' growth of the spirit of self consciousness in the Russian people with the mutiny of the crew of the armored cruiser Prince Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein's "Potemkin," now showing at the Fine Arts Theatre, is a high-strung, example of the possibilities of the silent film. Director Eisenstein's masterful use of highly dramatical material, although artistically well done in parts, is marred by his overlooking some of the fundamentals of photography. While a large part of the greatness of this film rests on the clever use of unusual and striking pictorial effects...