Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening, but when it was over, his house was completely bare of food and liquor. The next day, Mrs. Hendl, who is a painter, decided to do a still life of the roses which Munch had brought. The story eventually hit the papers, and Munch read it is a Swiss journal while he was a in Geneva. He kept the clipping, and months later when he saw Hendl, he presented the article and demanded his painting. When he saw it, Munch was quite impressed, and promised to show it to his friend Please. Since their the Hendl's have heard...
Pain & Pleasure. Both Furtwängler and his fellow essayist, Swiss Conductor Ertiest Ansermet (who called his 34-page opus Musical Experience and the Modern World), had played their share of contemporary music, Furtwängler dutifully, Ansermet enthusiastically. Yet both found that conducting it, like listening to it, had sometimes been more pain than pleasure...
...West has also dabbled in smellies, but seems to have outgrown them before they ever had a chance. Scented motion pictures were tried at the Swiss Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, one film aired 37 different smells in 35 minutes. One of the technicians responsible, a Swiss named Hans Laube, stayed on in the U.S., but in 1946 disgustedly left for Europe since, he said, there were no takers for the smellies in America...
...most entertaining item in Signature is a story called "A Pinch in Time." An American riding in a Swiss railway carriage engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...
...Cope graduated from the Medical School in 1928 and practices surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as consultant to the United States Army in Germany and in 1948 was a lecturer at the Swiss-American Center for Medical Exchange and information...