Word: queue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, an honored veteran of nine years, Momi sickened and died. A queue of sad-eyed Milanese railroadmen filed past the little mound of earth over her grave. "She was a cat of cats," said one of Momi's old bosses, now head of the Station Vehicle Section. "She will have a place here as long as the trains...
...British mouths today, the taste of victory in global war most often resembles that of a powdered egg-a dull, sad mockery of the fresh article. Nearly eight years after World War II's end, law-abiding, breakfast-loving Britons must still endure the powdered egg or queue for the real thing in strictly rationed quantities at the corner grocer's. Last week, Food Minister Gwilyn Lloyd George, Tory son of Britain's World War I Liberal Prime Minister, brightened their hopes by announcing that by early spring egg-rationing would come to an end. "The fact...
...Basso Cesare Siepi. Said Bing: "The finest vocal ensemble you can hear anywhere in the world." With those singers, and Verdi's music, Rudolf Bing sat back and hoped for another success. Last week, more than 72 hours before the curtain would rise on Forza, the standing-room queue was already beginning to form outside...
Londoners will queue up for anything from a prizefight to a prime rib, but this time they established a record even for London: they queued up to start a queue. Carrying blankets and food, the first of them began lining up outside the Royal Festival Hall 60 hours in advance. They were allowed to sleep overnight in a corridor. Then the real queue began in front of the box office. In such fashion last week, London music lovers awaited the first English appearance since 1939 of Arturo Toscanini...
...First Symphony, led them through it without halting them once, murmuring bravos and molto benes. "Gentlemen," he told them at the end of a third rehearsal, "you could not have played better. I am very pleased." This week the winners of the reserved-seat lottery and the standing-room queue got to hear what had pleased the Maestro so. London's reaction: 13 years was a long time between Toscaninis, but it was worth the wait...