Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beams & Bows. At the third concert of the tour, when the Philadelphia's pint-sized conductor strode toward the podium in London's huge Royal Albert Hall before a glittering audience of 7,000, he got only scant applause. Most were watching the royal box, where Queen Elizabeth was just making her own arrival. But an hour later, when Ormandy had brought Brahms's Symphony No. i to a resounding end, the applause came heavy and this time it was all for Ormandy and the orchestra. And when he finished the program with Ravel's Daphnis...
...three foreign-born piano teachers were only casual acquaintances in Europe, and they had not met in the U.S. until they happened together in the basement of Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Pint-sized, Polish-born Adam Garner just happened to have a copy of Bach's Concerto for Four Claviers and Orchestra. Young, Illinois-born Edward Edson, who was roaming the basement trying to select a piano, was willing to sit in as a fourth. So they maneuvered four concert grands into position, and gave the Bach...
...Unfair surprise," sputtered stooped, balding Abraham Isserman, and "Outside the scope of the indictment." Pint-sized Harry Sacher barked similar objections. Judge Harold Medina, bitingly suave, then and later gave short shrift to their objections...
Teetotaler Cripps made only one cheering concession: a reduction in the retail price of beer by a penny a pint. But food prices, he said, could be held down only by giving higher government subsidies to food-growers and dealers-and this he was in no position to do. Instead, he announced that meat prices would have to go up 7? a pound, cheese 7?, butter 3?, margarine 2?. Matches and telephone calls would also cost more...
...Pints & Pints. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Joseph E. Maranghi, charged with drunkenness, told the court that he had celebrated his release from jail on a similar charge by selling a pint of his blood, buying booze with the proceeds. Cause & Effect. In Astoria, N.Y., Walter Stanger, whose two small runaway sons had just been picked up by police for the sixth time, complained: "It's you cops. You give the boys so much ... ice cream and candy...