Word: quenches
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...signaling to the different players, whipping up climaxes. Toscanini had done all that at rehearsal. When he quivered his hand over his heart the men knew that he wanted the most from them. And always he sang, as he wanted the orchestra to sing. Toscanini's way to quench an ovation is to tug at the concertmaster's sleeve, an order for the musicians to leave the stage. But though the players filed out quickly last week the audience refused to leave until Toscanini came back, shyly accepted their cheers and bravos. It was his 67th birthday...
...helplessly, two quick-thinking members of the Yard police, Messrs. Grady and McNamara, seized the smouldering piece of furniture and hurled the mattress out of the window. As soon as it reached the ground, the mattress started to blaze, and after several buckets of water had failed to quench the flames, the day was saved by the appearance of the janitor with a fire extinguisher. The damage was pronounced negligible...
...beer. Never before, in the memory of man, were the sacred precincts of the executive mansion so used. Order and decorum characterized all White House functions under previous administrations. Probably never before, in its history, was the entrance to the mansion piled with beer kegs, brought in to quench the thirst of a president's family and friends...
...have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...
...throwing a bridge from the chasm's opposite bank. But the park-men knew that their first move would probably startle the deer into leaping off the ledge. Up to late last week it had not been rescued, was licking dew from the rocks to quench its thirst...