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Guard Eli Manos, another regular, is working out, but is apparently still not up to snuff. Manos sprained his ankle severely in a pre-season scrimmage...
Copland also said: "The classics have been used to snuff out all liveliness . . . and to set up a religion of music . . . while the public has been afraid to invest in anything not bearing the label of a masterwork...
...that he could not sing. To Lanza, nothing seems worthy to follow Caruso, despite the quiet opinion of Mrs. Dorothy Caruso, the famed tenor's widow, that Caruso's story is yet to be told in the movies with a script and star that are up to snuff...
...commonplace in communions which, five decades ago, were vigorous in their opposition to anything which smacked of 'Romish' tendencies. I worship in a Methodist church where the service today opens with the entrance of an acolyte to light the altar candles and closes when he reappears to snuff them. There is a Unitarian church in Chicago in which a sanctuary light burns constantly...
...realization that clockwork is a power source that can be used for more than just telling time. Such triumphs of ingenuity as Venice's famed Clock Tower, where the hours are struck by a pair of huge mechanical Moors, could be, and were, imitated in watches and snuff boxes made for the dandies of the day. Casanova thought himself half naked without several such showpieces about...