Word: signer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American sheet music, began selling it to collectors. Then he decided that reprints of the sheet music would find a greater audience. His first big publication was an edition of delicate melodies titled Seven Songs for the Harpsichord, by Musician:Politico Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had sent his work to George Washington, received a polite acknowledgement from the President: ". . . what alas! can I do to support it? I can neither sing one of the songs nor raise a note on any instrument to convince the unbelieving." The Slider. Dichter's stock...
...other hand, the Treasurer bristles at the suggestion that the College is a more proxy-signer. He votes with the University's interest in mind at all times, and this does not mean that he automatically supports a company's management...
...tried to peddle these letters to various publishers. None would bite, for they had been denounced as fakes and forgeries by everybody involved, including Winston Churchill and Alcide de Gasperi. But such denunciations did not deter wealthy Publisher Angelo Rizzoli, who is Italy's most unclassifiable political figure. Signer Rizzoli publishes Candido, a savagely satirical weekly edited by right-wing Novelist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camillo) Guareschi; Oggi, a slightly milder weekly with Monarchist politics; L'Europeo, which leans slightly left of center. To round matters out, Rizzoli is a close personal friend of Pietro Nenni...
Rossini: II Signer Bruschino (Elda Ribetti, Luigi Pontiggia; Milan Philharmonic conducted by Ennio Gerelli; Vox). A delightfully melodious little one-act opera, full of musical fun, the usual incredible plot, and some remarkably attractive singing...
...other hand, the Treasurer bristles at the suggestion that the College is a more proxy-signer. He votes with the University's interest in mind at all times, and this does not mean that he automatically supports a company's management...