Word: minuet
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...Neal Helm, an old Caruthersville friend who sat to his right. He was completely at home, and everybody in the room was at home with the President. Just before the pie à la mode, a grey-haired woman announced that the President "has consented to play Paderewski's Minuet...
...thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second palace, a big and ugly one, and a pretty little lake. And there were the Big Three, enjoying a summer evening of music...
...midwestern Missourian, was top man at Potsdam. Winston Churchill, the descendant of Marlborough, and Joseph Stalin, the Bolshevik dictator, made Harry Truman the chairman of their formal meetings. One evening he gave a state dinner for the other two, and afterwards he sat at a piano and played a minuet in G for them. One German, and one only, was in the room: Ludwig van Beethoven, who hated Prussianism and wrote the music...
...Wallgren that his own suit was the older (it was bought in 1939). He rose early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy Baby...
When first returns from Missouri indicated that the state might go Republican, Truman exclaimed: "Wow! I think that calls for a concert." He slid behind the chrysanthemum-bedecked piano, tinkled out Paderewski's Minuet, followed it with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed...