Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...
...city, approached a policeman, and asked him the way to Stefania Street. "It's not Stefania Street now," answered the cop, "it's been changed to Voroshilov Street." The peasant then asked how to find Italia Street. "You go that way," said the policeman, "but its new name is Vishinsky Street." The peasant inquired about Vigado Square. "You'll pass it on your way," said the policeman, "but you must call it Molotov Square." Some time later the policeman, crossing a bridge over the Danube, saw the peasant staring morosely into the water...
...name of Szymon Goldberg is not yet familiar to most U.S. concertgoers, but fanciers of fiddling have known it for years. They have willingly paid high prices for his imported records, though they could get U.S. recordings of better-known violinists for less. From Violinist Goldberg, who was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic at 20, they heard none of the showy virtuosity that often gets between a composer and his audience. The secret of Szymon Goldberg's art is not its showmanship but its selflessness...
...best telling opens on a stormy night in 1826 when a sailing vessel struck a reef and sank off Sydney harbor. On board were some English racing mares bound for Australia, and at least one managed to swim ashore. Her pedigree papers went down with the ship. So the name...
...name "Marianne" sounds so youthful that maybe some people were as surprised as I to see a lady of some fifty-odd. She didn't even look like a poet. She had a quiet, pale face which looked as if maybe it was a little frightened by the large, black, sawed-off witch's cap she was wearing. There was appropriate white lace at her collar and cuffs...