Word: stodgiest
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...climb by a ladder." With this exhortation last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed his Philharmonic-Symphony players through the great C Minor Symphony of Johannes Brahms. Tenderly, painstakingly, he molded every phrase and his men, as one, obeyed him. Magnificently he soared through the concluding chorale and even the stodgiest horn-player seemed to find the wings with which to follow. Then the little Italian called a pause, ate a bowl of soup with a raw egg in it before going on with the preparation of his first Manhattan concert of the season...
...Into the stodgiest period of English history minced "Dizzy," "in a coat of black velvet, poppy-colored trousers broidered with gold, a scarlet waistcoat, sparkling rings worn on top of white kid gloves." In decent black, Gladstone strode opposite?half-concealing his metaphysical doubts behind a truly British sense of duty. "At Oxford the young men drank less in 1840 because Gladstone had been...