Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roof. Brother Albert outlived all the rest. He was present on the day in 1899 when the shop moved to the Linz Building-a seven-story Dallas "skyscraper" with a roof garden where visitors could relax and enjoy the view.* And he was on hand in 1940 when Linz Bros, moved to its present quarters, a severely modern building a few doors from the Neiman-Marcus department store. Until his death last February, at 85, "Mr. Albert" showed up every day to hand his customers Irish jokebooks, and horehound candy to ward off colds. Then brother Simon's heirs...
Skippering dinghies is quite a different chore from sailing bigger boats. Even the most experienced sloop sailor must learn the knack of getting the most out of a dinghy. Weighing little over 100 pounds dinghies are extremely sensi-tive and touchy, and one can't relax for an instant...
...then it wasn't until the third period that the Tufts team scored its first goal. By this time, the Crimson defense had begun to relax and two out of Tufts five goals were scored on an almost undefended Sid Clark in the goal...
...tourists. Rome newspapers reported last week that they were brushing up their art at special schools, where artful dodgers of long practice instructed beginners on the finer points of fanning pockets painlessly. The unrationed Irish were plugging low-cost train and motor tours. In Portugal travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions...
...full two minutes he peered with patient poise around the hall until his matinee audience settled down into pin-drop silence. Then he began to play the magnificent Bach-Liszt A Minor Prelude and Fugue with the kind of unobtrusive ease and authority that lets an audience relax and forget there is a pianist onstage. In fact, Pianist Solomon even seemed to be enjoying the music himself. Everything else on his program-Scarlatti, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy-had the same soaring quality, the same mastery of style, technical finish and complete naturalness of phrasing...