Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...castigated conductors. A pet hate for a time: Toscanini, whose style he once likened to a "mastodonic mechanical piano." Above all, Giulio commissioned Arrigo Boîto to write the librettos of Otello and Falstaff, which fired the aged Verdi into composing again. Although Puccini drew monthly advances for nine years before paying the money back, their friendship was sometimes stormy. "All composers," Giulio wrote him once, "French, English, German, Turkish and Abyssinian, [are] a bunch of idiots...
...modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela (the hunter got the idea while stalking frogs last summer in the same area) to a nine-man botanical, oceanographic and archaeological assault by Cambridge on British Honduras...
...nine, North was experienced enough to work in the fields alone. Life around Brookston was grim for all farmers in those days after the collapse of prices following the World War I boom, and it was harsh at the North farm. Dale North, the father, was not satisfied unless everybody got up at 3:30 to milk, eat and harness up, so they could get into the fields by 5:30. The cheerless life in Widower North's house still troubles Warren North: "We never even had a Christmas tree." By 1930 the father saw the way clear...
...trouble and the fun begin when Mrs. Pennypacker (Dorothy McGuire) discovers that Mr. Pennypacker, who spends every other month away from home on business, has made an even greater contribution to the growth of Philadelphia: nine sturdy young Pennypackers. Illegitimate? "Mr. Pennypacker," an innocent clergyman confidently declares, "is a family man." Bigamy? "Morality," Mr. Pennypacker proposes, "is merely a matter of geography." What is right in Salt Lake City cannot be wrong in Harrisburg -or even in Philadelphia...
Yale's foil team, led by Peter Pohly, overwhelmed Crimson fencers Bill Trebilcock, Phil Charat, and Dave Johnson to pace an unexpectedly decisive 18-9 victory over the varsity fencing squad Saturday at the I.A.B. The Bulldogs won eight of nine matches against a surprisingly weak Crimson foil lineup, ending hope for the varsity's first Ivy League win of the year...