Word: working
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...good enough, and she flunked out miserably in the first term of the course. Determined to serve in China, she went back to London and took on two maids' jobs at once. She wanted to earn enough money to go to China on her own and work with Mrs. Jeannie Lawson, an old China missionary who had grown tired of retirement and, at 74, had returned to China...
When Mrs. Lawson died a year later, Gladys went on alone. Once her converts were formed into groups, Gladys Aylward, who belongs to no denomination, saw to it that they joined the nearest Christian mission. Some became Baptists, some Methodists. Says she: "I work kind of alongside everyone. We're all after the one thing-souls for Jesus Christ. I don't care if they're sprinkled or immersed...
...last season. For eleven curtain calls she got cheers that rattled the railings in the standees' gallery. When short, tuxedoed Director of Productions Brook edged his way onstage, the bravos became boos. When Brook retreated smiling, Soprano Welitch came back for more cheers. She had never had to work so hard for them. In addition to other troubles, she had lost her seventh veil while trying to hook it, momentarily revealing an ample midsection and skintight, flesh-colored panties. Said she: "Dali doesn't know the opera. It should be all light, not in darkness like the North...
Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...
Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...