Word: tausend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company began exporting. In 1898 Anton himself wired home from St. Petersburg the biggest order ever placed: 50,000 bulbs for the Czar's Winter Palace. Dumfounded, Gerard wired back asking how many of the zeros were a mistake. Rewired multilingual Anton impatiently: "Fifty thousand, fÜnfzig tausend, cinquante mille." When Germany later cut the rail link to Russia, Anton hired 70 reindeer and sleighs to get light bulbs through to the imperial court via Finland...
...idea for doing a musical originated last fall among a group of Club members. "We all just wanted to do a show," Smith said. Steve Charnas '57 and Andre W. Gregory '56 then wrote the book and Charlie H. Gross '55 and Fred C. Tausend '54 did the music and lyrics. Gross and Tausend also collaborated on the score for the 1953 Hasty Pudding Theatricals' production...
...Pudding's 106th production, is not going to need very much advertising of its own to pack the Pudding Playhouse from now until it goes on tour. It already bas an extremely clever book by John Benedict and Tom Whedon, funny, often hilarious lyrics by Bob Schwartz and Fred Tausend, Charles Gross' skillful musical score, precision dancing--all set off by a talented, well-trained east. What is more, the various parts jell; the singing, the shuffling, the wiggling, and the acting are all woven together into one solid, colorful production...