Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less for the long series, $1 to $2.50 less for the short. ¶ There will be the usual familiar faces among the soloists-Gabrilowitsch, Ganz, Petri-but there will also be some new ones, including Poldi Mildner, 18-year-old ''Cyclone of the Piano" whose swift, sharp, unorthodox playing last year gave Manhattan music critics food for many a journalistic difference of opinion. ¶ The trustees look for no reduction in their deficit this year. Last year's was $114,000. but this was reduced $34,000 by rental of Orchestra Hall (which the Symphony Association owns...
TIME'S source for the time to Tahoe was the Automobile Club of America, toward which a raised eyebrow for not keeping up with swift California...
...presenting of the Wagner numbers, as though coaxing the orchestra. His swifter style returned when he played and conducted the Concerto. Alternately he rippled off a solo passage, waved the baton, bobbed his head at the orchestra, beat time with a momentarily free hand. The sympathetic orchestra caught his swift mood, faithfully followed him then and later, through the formidable stretches of the Eroica. Happily convinced, the audience broke in with premature applause even more frequently than usual, twice rose in a body to applaud. Happy José Iturbi applauded the orchestra, grinned when they applauded back...
...likes to lay his puppets in a row, dissect them body & soul in advance. In The Paradine Case he takes most of 332 prolix pages for this job. But the reader who gets through these may feel repaid by some 200 pages about the trial itself, mostly swift, naked, exciting questions & answers...
...William Larimer Mellon, in the oil business. John D. Rockefeller was driving all rivals to the wall. The Mellons planned, then built in haste a pipe line from their wells in Western Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies to the Delaware River. Rockefeller, who had stopped others, could not stop this swift, calculated move. Two years later the Mellons sold their pipe-line which had cost $2,500,000 to Standard Oil for $4,500,000. All this happened by 1895 when Andrew was 40. The next decade, the decade of the Spanish War, was greater for Andrew. In the war boom...