Word: wagnerism
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...piano, modestly replied: "I am not worthy to touch it." But "Give 'em Hell" Harry sat right down and played a sonata of Mozart's on Mozart's own piano, right in front of Mozart's portrait. I can imagine the irascible ghost of Wagner muttering "Squirrelhead...
Robert F. Wagner, Mayor of New York City LL.D...
Leonard Wood '31, violinist and publisher of the Arlington Advocate, led the Orchestra in Wagner's "Prelude to The Meistersingers," while 1,500 reunioners tippled to the Teutonic tunes. Balloons festooned the gilded balconies and 1931 Harvard banners emboldened the stern crenellations of Boston's biergarten...
...Other Barzun books: The French Race, Race: A Study in Modern Superstition, Of Human Freedom, Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Romanticism and the Modern Ego, Pleasures of Music...
...About four of New York's 98 votes are expected to go for Stevenson. However, Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., who has supported Stevenson, said this week he will vote for Harriman on the first ballot if the governor is presented as a favorite...