Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leon R. Sinclair Jr. who, it turned out, was the attorney for the defense in the case. We sent the opposing attorneys tearsheets of TIME and LIFE stories on the subject and additional news from our morgue file on Giuliano, and, to satisfy our curiosity, asked our Hart ford string correspondent to find out what was going on at Norfolk Center School...
...aren't sure that paper money is here to stay, is that it is the only form of gold that the Government lets them hoard. Another hoarder, Alf Ringen, the postmaster of Kindred, N.Dak., rebelled at a 15-year-old government order which directed postal employees to save string; he had a 100-lb. ball of the stuff and it was getting...
Four years before he died, Franz Joseph Haydn sat down to compile a "Catalogue of those Compositions which I recall offhand having composed from my 18th year to my 73rd year." Among the many string quartets, concertos and pieces for a musical clock, the old man dimly remembered some 118 symphonies (latest scholarly count: 104) and half a dozen operas, including one, L'Infedelta Fedele, which musicologists are now sure he never wrote. Last week, however, Manhattan music lovers and critics alike pounded their palms over one he both wrote and remembered...
...that March night was fueled with just enough liquor to keep the conversation lively. But after a while the desultory talk started to get a little ugly: the subject of Ray Cirrotta cropped up among the eight undergraduates, among whom were the varsity football center and a second-string lineman...
...smaller might have proved a far better fit; or a distinction should have been made between the production and the show. For even more dazzling phenomena than Salesman and South Pacific themselves were the men who staged them: Elia Kazan and Joshua Logan. Director Logan, with an unbroken string of hits (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Mister Roberts, South Pacific) was easily Broadway's cleverest theater mind; Director Kazan, with three successive Critics' Circle awards (All My Sons, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman) stood forth as more truly perceptive, and accordingly...