Word: without
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death. Hating to waste one moment of time or one inch of score paper, the poverty-stricken composer wrote in a highly individualized musical shorthand, sometimes indicating whole passages with one or two pothooks, often squeezing in bars off the clef-at the edges and bottom of the sheet-without even indicating where they belonged. His most puzzling short cut was in the correction of notes: instead of erasing, Bartok grafted his improvement right onto the original...
...Hilton's hotels is different from the others, together they form a rich pattern of 20th Century U.S. hotel life. In the U.S., more than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full life without ever going out of doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your...
...build the hotel. Then he ran out of money and his troubles began. When a secretary mistakenly mailed a $50,000 check to pay a plumber's bill, Hilton dashed to a friend who knew the postmaster to get the check back before it was delivered. Without being asked, the friend lent Hilton $50,000 to cover the check. When Hilton ran out of money again, he went back to his landlord and persuaded him to finish and furnish the building. Then Hilton rented it back from him at $100,000 a year...
...English Poet Dylan Thomas and by T. S. Eliot. Thomas reads with a rich, controlled romantic lilt, and Eliot's dramatic rendering of a passage from The Waste Land makes it suddenly spring to excited life. The reader begins to discover the pleasures poetry can sometimes yield without guides, crutches or bridges...
...room to find two total strangers sitting on his sofa smoking. Seeing him, they rose and left silently. Another soul woke up to find his bed being moved into the center of the room by two burly strangers. The two them looked briefly out the window and left without a word...