Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postcard was signed by a onetime music critic, George Bernard Shaw, who had had a long talk with Rayinski one day after hearing him play outside Shaw's house in Ayot Saint Lawrence...
After the intermission, he fiddled even more brilliantly, melting the audience with his interpretations of Chausson, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Ysaÿe. He took eight more curtain calls, played three encores. The critics next day were equally enthusiastic. Glowed La Nazione Italiana: "A tremendous violinist. His tone is of exceptional power . . . His left hand has the agility of a rope dancer...
Belgians first began to hear of burly Constant Permeke when he blustered into the Flemish art settlement of Laethem-Saint-Martin in 1909. There, with a few other young experimenters, he set about fighting the impressionist artists-in-residence. For their softly lighted diffused studies Permeke substituted virile paintings of grubby, stocky farmers with huge limbs and bullnecks, stuck them in earthy, gloomy landscapes...
...Nutcracker Suite, Ulanova, with muscular Partner Juri Kondratov, sparkled through a rigorous program with top polish and variety: a selection from Schumann's Carnaval, Chopin's Waltz No. 7, a bit from Glière's Red Poppy, Death of the Swan to music by Saint-Saëns, and an overawing acrobatic finale, Rubinstein's Waltz. Each number drew loud, continuous roars...
Midnight Sailing. When the two had been missing for three days, Scotland Yard took up the trail together with Britain's M.I.-5 counter-espionage agents. They found that Burgess had booked two tickets for a round-trip excursion steamer to Saint-Malo, Brittany, hired a small sports car for ten days. Headlights blazing, the car flashed through the deserted streets of Southampton just before midnight, screeched to a stop at the dockside. The two men tossed a couple of shillings to the dock attendant, shouted "Buy yourself a drink," and leaped aboard the steamer. "What about...