Word: partier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HILDESHEIMER WARNED at the outset, this confident though unassuming biography leaves us with a still-unresolved composite of "an inconceivably great mind." All the cliched preconceptions--the angelic genius, the pauper-composer who hardly needed to think about the music he produced, the partier--are soon quashed. Hildesheimer, steeped for three decades in Mozart's music and history, shares with his reader the honest belief that his subject will remain "forever puzzling and unapproachable...
Semi-professional partier...
...real partier," Bartlett says of Hagen. Although he has only a second-hand knowledge of Hagen's glory days, the anecdotes speak for themselves. After he won the British Open at Troon in 1928, he begged off entering the clubhouse for the victory presentation because the players had been forbidden to go inside during the tournament; instead, he invited the gallery over to the pub where he was staying...
When Rafto isn't studying or running he likes to be with friends listening to "moderate" rock music. "I'll have an occasional drink but I'm not a real partier. I don't like to go out and get plastered...
...court to go back into the fray. Felix Frankfurter had made no bones about his coziness with the White House in the Roosevelt days. Jackson hoped for a bigger political plum. Black made speeches before the National Citizens Political Action Committee. Justice Murphy was the most indefatigable cocktail-partier in the capital (where cocktails are invariably spiced with political dope...