Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday services at the nondenominational Chapel on the base, just before his holiday ended, he found a poem on the program: "Be strong: We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; we have hard work to do, and loads to lift." Next day he returned to a rainy Washington...
...making history behind champagne and potted palms. Those were the days when agreement between nations was possible. Now that diplomacy has become a matter of political philosophies which by definition cannot agree with each other, both the conferences and the parties have assumed the unreal air of a costume play in modern dress...
...television seemed to be discouraging a certain type of trespasser on the great male sanctuary. Said one tavern keeper: "Funny thing, hustlers don't play these bars with television much, not until after the program is over for the night. Too much conflict of interest...
...Toscanini snapped: "Good. I'll teach you myself." He drilled the Metropolitan's brilliant new baritone, Giuseppe Valdengo (a graduate of the New York City Opera Co.), for two hours on the proper way to sing just two words-"non so"-at a crucial spot in the play...
...orchestra in his croaky voice. When the chorus mumbled, he said sharply, in Italianized English that was hard to understand: "Let me hear the words. There is not a word that has no meaning." For an erring violinist, he indulged his own brand of humor: "If you play that wrong Saturday night, I will drop dead. Then they will put you in jail for murdering me." Muttered one perspiring observer: "They will all drop dead before the Old Man does...