Word: luster
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...wife produced a lumpish son 100 years ago, the world was blessed with one of its greatest musical creators. The infant son was Johannes Brahms, who lived to grow a beard which was worthy of his name. At the end of this I season that name will have added luster, for Arturo Toscanini is conducting the New York Philharmonic in no less than 18 all-Brahms concerts...
...individuals. In the present case that determination has revealed itself in a ruthless professionalism which has not scrupled even to cast an implicit insult at its football rival. The implication that Notro Dame was not unwilling in bribe a member of the Southern California squad considerably dulls the luster of the Trojan victory...
...German who earned a re-engagement for next year with Manhattan's Philharmonic. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition by Sergei Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony (Victor, $8)-Ravel's translation of Mussorgsky's impressions in a picture gallery. Performance and recording have luster. Richard Strauss's Der Burger als Edelmann by Richard Strauss and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra (Brunswick, $7.50) -The composer's own version of the charming, satirical music he wrote for Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll by Karl Muck and the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Muck...
...Oncle Sam: Power Luster...
Autumn is gone, the snow is here. The Vagabond can rake over the fallen leaves of the past season only with mixed emotions. If he has been regular in the performance of his duty in attendance at lectures, if those lectures have shown with their usual degree of luster, he has exhausted the store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side...