Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels, and leaving Ambassador Davis to keep his temper while the windup of the conference gave the Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opportunity to say that Rome "has deemed this conference entirely superfluous from the very beginning and has had no reason since to change its mind...
...great genius," he conceded airily to a recent interviewer. Earlier he had made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been created a baron." About the music of Stravinsky he is unenthusiastic, finds extreme Modernist Schonberg "unsympathetic...
...Mind Own Business...
...practical way to keep out of war," he declared, "is for the American people to stop pulling chestnuts out of the fire for other nations" and "mind our own business...
...forged his father's signature to a note which asked the schoolmaster to "Give Tom a holiday." When his father discovered the fraud, he shook his head and prophesied: "Tom will one day be hanged." But when he saw how he had spent the stolen time, he changed his mind: "Tom will be a genius...