Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spitting. It was then Vishinsky's turn to get up and talk. Famed as the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow treason trials (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936), Vishinsky was badly handicapped last week by having to stop every two minutes to be trans lated. His tall young interpreter, Vladimir Postoyev, became more & more agonized trying to translate Vishinsky's Soviet hairsplitting. When the agonized young man finally faltered, Vishinsky half whirled around, spat something at him, grimly watched the luckless linguist jump as though he had been shot...
Szell, 48, is a tall, near-bald, thick-spectacled Czech-Hungarian, who conducted the Berlin State Opera B.H. (Before Hitler). A stern, formal leader, he has since 1942 conducted some of the Metropolitan Opera's best-disciplined performances. He plans to add eight men to the Cleveland orchestra, to bring its membership to 92. Said he: "A new leaf will be turned over with a bang! People talk about the New York, the Boston, and the Philadelphia. Now they will talk about the New York, the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland." Thus top success was in sight...
...Manila trial of tall (6 ft.) Lieut. General Masaharu Homma added three new footnotes to history...
...applause went on for two minutes when she came on stage; the house was full, and 100 extra people crowded onto the stage, which was decked with enough floral tributes to do justice to a gangster's funeral. But tall, ample Lotte Lehmann, one of the greatest sopranos of her fading day, making her 18th annual appearance at Manhattan's Town Hall, still nervously clutched a handkerchief as she sang Schubert's Müllerin song cycle. Said she, afterwards: "The first concert in New York is always difficult. The heart goes like that! It is like...
Like many Unitarians, tall, wide-eyed Van Paassen was born in another faith,* like many he came from a family of clergymen. As a youth in Toronto (whence his family migrated from The Netherlands) he studied theology, was so fascinated by preaching that he chose the Methodist seminary because it offered opportunity for field work. But World War I interrupted his religious studies, sent him to France as a volunteer in the Canadian expeditionary force. Later, as roving correspondent for the late great New York World, he gained the high-powered inside information on European politics that made Days...