Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expertly sung. Most performers are part-time professionals-old opera hands in semiretirement or music students who work and take lessons during the day, sing several nights a week at the bar. There is no honky-tonk hanky-pank at the Bocce; the men, in white shirts and black string ties, and the women, in flowered skirts and modest blouses, sit stiffly on the tiny stage, waiting their turns to line out La donna è mobile or Un bel di. The audiences come to hear music, and they listen with attention, shush fiercely at loud-crowing pub crawlers...
...California, the Republicans last week kicked off their 1958 congressional campaign in a big display of televised speechmaking, with Dwight Eisenhower as the evening's coaxial keynoter. The President flew into Chicago in a snowstorm, sat down to a $100-a-plate dinner (cold roast beef and string beans) with 5,400 Republicans at the huge International Amphitheater. In a twelve-minute address at meal's end, he promised "prompt and effective modernization of our defense organization," urged improved educational and mutual assistance programs, asked an end to partisan bickering over U.S. security. Said he: "Americans must never...
...Promising to "give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to do it," Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza took command of the Nicaraguan National Guard when the U.S. Marines pulled out in 1933, parlayed his talents into dictatorship, a string of coffee plantations and cattle ranches into a $60 million fortune, was killed, at 60, by an assassin in September...
Bongos & Borsch. To light up the hotel's vast lobby, gambling casino, nightclub and swimming pool, plus the 20-story structure from the outside, electricians had to string out the lights the length of almost four football fields and use more kilowatts than the same NBC lighting men once used to illumine Niagara Falls...
...Pritchett that the proper study of British fiction is class. One of the best stories in this collection is set in Venice and is strongly reminiscent of theVenetian episode in Lady Chatterley's Lover. Like D. H. Lawrence, Sansom plays his defunctive music undersea on the G string of sex, but class composes the melody. In this case, a gondolier rashly falls in love with a beautiful English girl whose snobbery is so intense that it simply does not occur to her that a mere gondolier could aspire to be her lover. When the uninformed Venetian finally begins...