Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Austrian-born Biographer Stefan Zweig committed suicide (together with his wife) in Brazil almost five years ago, he had been working on Balzac for a decade, referred to it as "the large Balzac" that was to become his magnum opus. Now published, his passionately sympathetic portrait of the prolific French novelist is clearly handicapped by the sudden death of its author...
...guests could take it in the dining room; the $5 crowd could fight for it, or away from it, at a buffet board. Many a farsighted Montrealer had booked rooms in the hotel days in advance, to drink rye or gin, and imported champagne at $30 a magnum...
...Stands for Ads. What are ads? Movie ads are tempting and alluring advertisements which entice you not to miss the pictures they are advertising, but in spite of which people go to see the pictures anyway. . . . The most gifted ad-writer of them all was Magnum J. Naphtha...
...importance to these titles." Many a philological pilgrim came respectfully to his villa at Hamlet's Elsinore. For its articles on Language, Philology, Grammar, the Encyclopedia Britannica (see p. 48) turned to Jespersen. He left behind him more than a score of lively books in several tongues. His magnum opus: Modern English Grammar (4 vols...
From somewhere in Manhattan a "Mr. Crawford" sent Singer Lotte Lehmann a magnum of champagne, 72 roses and an apology. Late one night Singer Lehmann's telephone had buzzed, a stern voice had said: "This is Mr. Crawford of NBC. Why haven't you appeared for the March of Dimes broadcast? It starts in three minutes." Sleepy Miss Lehmann sang Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes into the telephone, later learned that there was no Mr. Crawford at NBC. With the champagne and roses Mr. Crawford sent a note, written on Hotel Waldorf-Astoria stationery: "With these...