Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stubby fingers, which he always soaked in warm water before a performance, though still steely-supple, had just perceptibly lost something of their cascading fluidity. Critics no longer unconditionally rated him as No. 1 among the world's great pianists. But he still had what it took to hold an audience: a great past, a great presence...
...whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies at the Warsaw Conservatory met with little encouragement. Only the trombone teacher, with whom he took a few experimental booping lessons, saw a future for him. Said he: "You will earn your livelihood with the trombone, not the piano...
...that calls off these radio alarms day by day in reassuring and sometimes lyric New Yorkese is usually that of ruddy, greying Captain John George Stein, head of the bureau, 36 years a policeman and the No. 1 expert in his field. One day last week expert Captain Stein took a few minutes extra over WNYC to list his findings on why girls leave home...
Thereupon Banker Giannini himself took a bold propagandistic step. To squelch SEC charges that he took more money from his empire than he admitted, A. P. (who has lately been closeted with cunning Pressagent Edward L. Bernays) released a complete statement of his net worth, including cash, securities, salary, insurance. Instead of the millions most people would have guessed, it totaled only...
Hustling home to San Francisco, old A. P. immediately took his battle to the public. Snapped this onetime backer of the New Deal: "I found bright young men, fresh from academic halls, completely uninformed of life and experience and the ways of business, dominating important councils. By using the force of propaganda they try to compensate...