Word: unbeknownst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for the great opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers...
Hidden somewhere in the dark reaches of the Bostoa Opera House (tradition and the sentimentalists say it is the second balcony but occasionally a true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...
...friends knew that he made a practice of writing privately about his finds and adventures, and unbeknownst to him arranged for the publication of The Amenities of Book Collecting (1918), rapidly multiplying editions of which soon established him as an essayist of rank and led to A Magnificent Farce, Dr. Johnson: A Play, and the present volume...
...deadly efficiency of the Japanese is, unbeknownst, giving the death-blow to a tradition of comic literature. The bow-legged English of the Oriental schoolboy has long held its place in the humorist's schedule. Whenever the public mouth seems inclined to relax to a comfortable position, a letter in pidgin English restores to it the contortion of lips which passes current for an appreciation of humor. Certain Japanese, with the connivance of Americans, are trying to teach in their schools English "as is" English...
...Csongrad, Hungary, Jewish women gave a charity ball. Unbeknownst to them, several members of the "Awakening Hungarians," a Budapest organization with pronounced views on Hungarian independence, entered the hall. At the height of the festivities, an "Awakening Hungarian" rolled a bomb across the dance floor. One Jewish woman was killed, 50 were injured...