Word: angular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shut Up. Bernard Haggin, an angular musical zealot who looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book...
Utility Furniture cost ⅓ than comparable prewar products. Sixty coupons-the maximum-are about enough to take the emptiness out of a small, three-room apartment. All the furniture is extraordinarily plain-looking, angular, simple, functional. After six months of Utility Furniture the British thought Tennyson's greying grandson a practical and knowing fellow. Some even hoped his designs would be continued after...
...minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor . . . their driving energy . . . their sincere desire to please 'Koussy' and the audience." The music itself is angular, rough, forceful, enthusiastic. Particular attention and praise also should be called to the plaintive woodwin solos at the close of "Look Down, Fair Moon," and the God knows-how-many voice orchestral fugue opening the "Song of the Banner...
...tain resounded through reactionary French circles. It was Pétain's voice on the stormy night of June 16, 1940 that informed the French people that their Government would not fight on from North Africa. His large, angular handwriting was on the armistice signed in the Forest of Compiègne. His governmental planning killed the French parliament, tried to impose on France a corporate state complete with antiSemitism...
...head of a startled Australian infantryman. He had demanded stiff training and stiff discipline from the troops just behind the lines, and he had personally directed every type of night attack, marched with new troops, fired every new gun and tried out every new tank as they arrived. His angular, inquisitive figure was by now familiar to all the units about to attack: the sist Highlanders, veterans of France, now about to get their first action against the Germans since their stand on the Somme in 1940, the desert-tried 50th Division, Aussies, South Africans, Fighting French, Greeks...