Word: martini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sopranos Emma Calvé, Emmy Destinn, Olive Fremstad, Marcella Sembrich, Marion Talley; Tenors Nino Martini, Lauritz Melchior; Baritone Pasquale Amato; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
...white, so unblemished; hands which had held nothing heavier than a pen since they had passed out of the rattle stage. He felt his biceps, and it suddenly occurred to him that those arm muscles had never exerted themselves more than to reach across the table for a dry Martini. As he looked at his feet, perched lackadaisically on the desk in front of him, the thought crossed his mind that the major part of their existence had been spent in just such a position. A feeling of disgust crept over...
Perhaps as he began his last journey, he remembered the two epitaphs he had seen at Ferrara on another journey and whose "modesty" he had found "deeply moving": Said one: Martini Luigi...
Silver-haired, trim (about 175 lb., 5 ft. 10 in.), Andy Andrews looks the general. He golfs. He still likes to fly, does it well. He gambles (for enough to make it profitable fun). He is a discriminating Martini sipper (who says that he has yet to find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command...