Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burdick's pronouncement had had one instant effect. Other Oxonians, including a batch of other Rhodes scholars, dashed to their desks to compose retorts for the next week's issue of I sis. It looked as though the year was off to a splendid start, with enough to...
Last week Mrs. Cohen was able to sum up her experience: "What a headache being lucky can be!" Soon after the first night's excitement, the Cohens learned what it was like to be continually annoyed and worried. After a tractor was delivered at the apartment, they took steps...
Last week, in the loft, the Cohens auctioned off all their winnings except a Nash automobile, a $900 television set, a few pieces of jewelry and a $1,000 merchandise slip from Saks Fifth Avenue. They saw a $1,700 diamond wristwatch go for $550, a $1,000 tile bathroom...
In Manhattan, thousands packed the Metropolitan Opera House to hear his foremost living interpreter and Polish compatriot, Artur Rubinstein, play Chopin's incomparable mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, nocturnes and waltzes in a commemorative concert. In Paris, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky prepared for a similar recital at the Sorbonne. In London, BBC...
Of young Robert Schumann, who was busily praising him from afar ("Hats off, gentlemen, a genius"), Chopin said, "I am constantly afraid that ... he will write something that will make me ridiculous forever." He complained, "Why did I not live when Bach and Mozart were living? I would burn all...