Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity swimming team gained second place, slightly behind Yale, after the first half of the 19th Annual Invitation Meet of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, held yesterday in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale. The 27 schools represented will wind up the tournament today...
...miles from Buenos Aires to New York (although last week the scooter manufacturer was being sticky about free samples), and it is possible that they will meet Fellow Scholar Brian Moser heading in the opposite direction. He plans to spend a year riding a horse from Colombia to the wind-lashed Tierra del Fuego, near the southern tip of the continent. As he limbers up, another Cambridge group far off in the Belgian Congo will be busy at their study of nematode worms...
Entitled The Bigamist, this Italian film might be called No Noise is Good Noise. It features Vittorio de Sica as "an eloquent but absent-minded wind-bag lawyer who can't tell a tort from a tortoni." Though Mr. de Sica takes his limited role firmly by the tail, he overshakes it until it becomes disappointing...
...first half of the program consisted of Hindemith's Symphony in E-flat, composed in 1930. This is a turgid, tense work, and it received a rather turgid, tense performance. There were some passages of technical finesse and sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...
...when the dying Oscar Wilde told him of dreaming of supping with the dead, "I'm sure, Oscar, you were the life and soul of the party."). The New Yorker series on Beerbohm is likely to grow into a book, as did The Worcester Account (on which The Cold Wind and the Warm is based) and Duveen...