Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...others to keep their seats. At the piano he turned to remark: "When Stalin heard me play this he signed the protocol at Potsdam." The piano was not in good tune and Harry Truman was not in his best musical form. He confessed that he had finished the Minuet with a few bars of a Mozart sonata. Then there were autographs to sign-from a toy bear to a WAVE's leave papers...
...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...