Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characteristically Rubinsteinian feat-part grandstand play, part musical passion. "Anyone could do it," he says with grand self-depreciation, "but no one will imitate me because I won't make a penny on it." Out of his share of the receipts Rubinstein was paying for the accompanying symphony orchestra (mostly members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony) under Conductor Alfred Wallenstein. Despite the backbreaking concert schedule, tireless Artur Rubinstein took on two recording sessions, one of them at midnight (he has sold more than 3,000,000 albums for RCA Victor...
...have always lived without political passion," wrote Renault one day in 1936. "Whatever its government or opinion, I have always served my country with the same vigor ... to orient the country toward work." He visited Hitler in 1938, returned with a case of Führerism. When the Wehrmacht swept across France, Renault was in the U.S. as a member of an Allied purchasing mission. He returned home to put his factories at the service of Vichy and the Nazis, in four years made 34,232 vehicles for the Nazis. When a friend chided him for making money...
Under his hardboiled shell Mencken was a kindly man, with a dozen godchildren, and legions of good friends who disagreed with every one of his opinions and prejudices. He had a passion for great literature, classical music and for people (even preachers, politicians and boobs). He liked nothing better than a terrapin dinner, washed down with good beer (and a toast to Lydia E. Pinkham), followed by an Upmann cigar and an evening of sparkling conversation. In his robust way, he loved America, once said: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing." He also loved...
...bust measurements. Now that she has reached the top in Italy, Sophia is ready to start at the top in U.S. films. Next spring she will begin shooting her first American movie, co-starring with Gary Grant and Frank Sinatra in Stanley Kramer's The Pride and the Passion...
...Weekly and Hughes was working for the National City Bank branch), announces that she is ready with breakfast: orange juice, one egg, two strips of bacon, hot lemonade. (Hughes's other culinary tastes are mostly simple. He likes steaks, roast beef and pudding, but also has a flaring passion for curry-derived from a four-year tour of bank duty in Bombay.) He is usually in his office by 8:45, works until...