Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, thousands packed the Metropolitan Opera House to hear his foremost living interpreter and Polish compatriot, Artur Rubinstein, play Chopin's incomparable mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, nocturnes and waltzes in a commemorative concert. In Paris, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky prepared for a similar recital at the Sorbonne. In London, BBC had Pianist Claudio Arrau in an all-Chopin program and Albert Hall had Robert Casadesus. In Chopin's native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming...
Many a shocked compatriot on shore remembered how these men had sailed away, in the days of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a similar purposeful spirit and disciplined jingoist chants. The official welcoming party-talkative bureaucrats, beaming Red Cross nurses, bustling newsmen-waited on a bare wooden dock in Maizuru harbor, with blue, cloud-flecked hills and stark rusted cranes of the former naval base as backdrop. The 2,000 lined up rigidly, listened stonily to the effusive greetings, responded with chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen...
Gordon Weir placed second in the diving followed by teammate Win Briggs. This was the first time that Weir had outpointed his compatriot in the three meets since Tom Drohan left the squad. Briggs had previously been rated somewhat over Weir by pool-side observers, namely the judges...
When a storm swamped a rowboat on Cayuga Lake in 1916, a young Cornell man named Hu Shih got a ducking. To memorialize the immersion, a soaking compatriot composed a poem in literary Chinese. Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own. They were written in Pai Hua (the living speech) instead of Wen Li (the literary language), and they were good. Until Hu did it, no one believed that serious literature could be made from, Pai Hua, as Dante had from Italian...
...nights later, Yugoslav Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic, a relatively minor diplomat, had 120 guests in to hear his compatriot, Violinist Zlatko Balakovic, give a recital. He, too, had Senators and a minister, and his party had a fine international air-although his official hostess, one Dr. Mica Trbojezic, did run around popping little meatballs into her guests' mouths...