Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance brought a blizzard of complaints howling down upon Editor Gosta Blomberg and the offices of Sweden's tax collectors. Thousands of outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...
Connecticut Author Mortimer Smith (The Life of Ole Bull) had four children of school age, but like most parents, he had never bothered to find out much about the public schools they were going to. Three years ago, he became a member of the regional high-school board for the towns of Newtown, Woodbury, Southbury and Bethlehem, and "Oh my," says he, "how my eyes were opened...
Last week at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the Navy staged a press demonstration of the Skyrocket which was a face-reddening flop. The plane never got off the ground. But many earlier tests have been successful. The Skyrocket's top speed, not announced, is probably around 1,000 m.p.h...
...curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong man, and Risë Stevens as a self-conscious seductress, the opera never got out of low gear. But in this case it was almost wholly the fault of Composer Saint-Saëns: his slow-moving Samson and Delilah is more often oratorio than opera...
...been praised by such men as Paul Whiteman ("Tatum is a genius") and the late Thomas ("Fats") Waller ("That Tatum ... is just too good"). He delights in swift changes in tempo and key, becomes so involved in complex contrapuntal rhythms that his listeners are certain he will never find his way out. But he always does...