Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anatoly Valyozhenich, after expressing a desire to meet John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway, revealed his hope of becoming a writer of short-stories...
Paris Holiday (Tolda; United Artists). "Je t'adore," Anita Ekberg murmurs throatily to Bob Hope. "I did," he replies, glancing nervously at the door of his stateroom. He'll be sorry he did. Ekberg is a sneaking budge for a counterfeit ring, and Hope is an actor who wants to produce a play that exposes her employers. Arrived in Paris ("Say, that's the biggest TV tower I've ever seen"), Hope discovers that his room opens on the very same balcony as Anita's-a coincidence that could easily prove fatal, or even embarrassing...
Verdi was born of peasant stock near the town of Busseto in the Po Valley in 1813. When he was 18, the townsfolk sent him to Milan Conservatory, hoping that he could be trained to become Bus-seto's organist and orchestra director. But the conservatory examiners flunked Verdi; his talent for composition, they said, was "passable," but his pianoforte technique was ruined by "a faulty position of the hands and wrists." This "blow to all his pride and hope was so terrible" that Verdi never forgot, never forgave it. Helped by a friendly patron, he buckled down...
...hope you will grant me the space to amplify certain details in your news item of May 6 relative to my proposal in the current Alumni Bulletin to establish a Chair of Naturalistic Humanism at the Divinity School...
...pass this information on in the hope that it may be of value, financial and spiritual, to your readers after they leave their quiet halls for the din and noise of life. Preston W. Smith, Jr., Cambridge Acoustical Associates...