Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waggish friend suggested hanging a sign around his neck, "Do not feed the Maestro." Another evening was saved only when a nonartistic friend, arriving late, went over to the sulking Toscanini, slapped him on the back and said: "Did you see that Louis-Walcott fight?-worst fight I ever saw." Toscanini brightened immediately. Ramming his fist into his hand, he shouted, "He couldn't hit him, he couldn't hit him." The rest of the evening was a success...
...From Hamlet's famous advice to the players: ". . . Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness...
Cold Perfectionists. But there was something wrong with all of them. They showed a "mechanization of human relationships," described themselves and their spouses as undemonstrative. There was, Dr. Kanner found, "no glamor of romance in premarital courtship, no impetuousness in postnuptial mating." He saw only one mother hug her child warmly and bring her face close to his; many of the busy fathers hardly knew their children...
...badly out of tune . . . Sardines [for supper] . . . could scarcely swallow them . . . This is Sunday ... I will read the new version of the Bible . . . Encyclopedia Britannica [steadies] my nerves ... To bed early . . . shut my eyes and imagine a terraced abyss, each terrace occupied by a beautiful maiden [but I] only saw [my wife] and Mamma . . . Sleep...
Princeton's rugby team defeated the Crimson 3 to 0 by a penalty kick for field goal Saturday in an otherwise close contest which saw a determined Harvard onslaught fall in the second period. Some 300 rooters turned out for the game at Soldiers Field...