Word: spicing
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...Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Beethoven and Brahms wrote the important music for the evening-the Lenore Overture No. 3, and Brahms' First Symphony in C Minor with its tender upward sweep of strings, the sombre throbbing of basses and tympanums, bravely building, mellow, wise. Debussy and Liszt furnished the spice- Nuages and Fêtes, vague, lovely, and the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, vigorous, breathless. Conductor Gabrilowitsch did his work well, won for himself an ovation, a wreath...
...From San Francisco we shall continue to Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon, Banda, Bima and at last arrive at our final destination, Surobaya, our great naval base which protects our rubber, tea and spice trade in the East Indies...
These events participated in by former stars, will be serious in nature. Spice in the half mile will be supplied by G. M. Hammond, Columbia '77, who performed in that year the feat of winning the 440 and 880, besides placing second in the mile. Mr. Hammond has run a mile twice a week for the past five years and six years ago served on the Olympic fencing team...
Surely the spring has seasoned culture with the spice--and wine--of living. Yet it is not quite such an unusual phenomenon as might a casual observer believe. Lord Chesterfield, stern guardian that he was, suggested occasional play as necessary in the life of his son, Philip. And that sane and sage poet of the Sabine hills confessed that--"it is sweet to play the fool in the right place." Of course the right place is not always the spotlight. But Horace did not appreciate publicity. Young barbarians--old barbarians--all are quite willing to play the fool anywhere...
...admire your unequaled faculty for condensing a great bulk of news into a few lucid paragraphs. And your knack for puncturing bull bladders by clever and oblique hits and subtle passes adds spice to your splendid talent...