Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...removing from his lips the tuba which he plays in stress or inspiration. This is a characteristic reaction. It provides the key to his later behavior when, installed in his uncle's Manhattan mansion and bored by the task of humbling smart alecks who mistake his lack of polish for absence of wit, he finds recreation in feeding doughnuts to cab horses, chasing fire engines and sliding down the marble banisters...
Most is expected of Polish Artur Rodzinski who will have command of the season's last eight weeks. Conductor Rodzinski has made rare progress since he arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago to serve an apprenticeship as assistant to Philadelphia's Leopold Stokowski. From Philadelphia Rodzinski went to Los Angeles, created new interest in the orchestra there. For the past three years he has been in Cleveland where he has become increasingly dynamic. Besides building up the audiences for the regular symphony series he has made opera, a part of his schedule. For Cleveland...
...what they had started before Depression. Last week, when Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's hefty President Samuel Thomas Bledsoe announced the biggest single track-laying job planned by any U. S. railroad in years, his announcement promised no new episode in the railroad epic but a return to polish off one of those left unfinished...
...under the heading "Basses." Waldemar Giese has stood before them solemnly hugging his big bull fiddle for six years. Nevertheless, few would be able to identify this musician whose consuming ambition has been to exhibit his skill as a soloist. Last week, in Philadelphia's New Century Auditorium, Polish Waldemar Giese at last showed what he could...
...Strachey called "the Swift of poetry," and who is still the most widely read poet in France, was a well-to-do bourgeois who despised his class, lived most of his life with a mulatto mistress, took opium and scandalized even Paris with his Fleurs du Mal, which combined polish, putrescence and pornography to an inspired degree. Since his death he has been manhandled by many a translator. Last week the latest attempt to transplant his hot-house Flowers of Evil was put on exhibition in the U. S. This time it was the work of two pairs of hands...