Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted the word from the sheriff's office did not call on big, tousle-haired Sheriff Mike Elliott to get it. Not that the sheriff might not see them at the courthouse if he was in a benign mood-it was just that he usually did nothing but snort: "Why do you guys keep calling me a politician? I'm a statesman. A statesman is for the people!" His news releases, however, could be obtained by going to Brownie's U-Drive and asking for Richard ("Brownie") Brown...
...average gallerygoer the majority of the exhibits looked handsome, efficient, worth taking home. Tubular steel and molded plywood chairs, unornamented chests and tables no longer wore the unfamiliar, revolutionary air which had made an earlier generation snort and settle deeper into its mohair easy chairs. Sample rooms designed by Finland's Alvar Aalto and Manhattan's George Nelson proved that with modern furnishings a home could be simple and yet warm and livable...
First they heard Beethoven's noble and powerful "Archduke" trio-a perfectionist's performance, marred only slightly by an accidentally turned microphone and the nearby snort of commuter trains. By week's end, when the three had got through their program of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Ravel (in trios, duos and solos), they had Chicago in the palms of their hands...
...dicos swear that a man once given up for dead by Lima doctors was brought to the cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...
...Snort from Segovia. The lute wasn't easy to learn. Plenty of music has been written for the lute (more, Suzanne believes, than for the harpsichord), but she found it written in a complicated notation called "tablature." The instrument itself was a little complicated too. Famed Guitarist Andrés Segovia visited Suzanne last year, took one look at her lute and snorted, "Too many strings" (her lute has 19, Segovia's guitar only...