Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, tall, stoop-shouldered, 66-year-old Rachmaninoff stood on the conductor's platform for the first time in 30 years, earnestly rowed the Philadelphia Orchestra through two of his weightiest works. One was his Third and latest Symphony, the other his 45-minute-long choral symphony The Bells, which needs a 200-man chorus as well as a 100-man orchestra to boom out its melodious refrain. For several days he had given up piano practice to brush up his conducting technique. Said he: "Playing the piano and conducting...
...what I'll do-I'll give you $40,000 for Paramount." So are his crazy cracks. A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows." "What!" exclaimed Kaufman. "You have to stoop...
...Thank you all, good people, for the support you have given me," Mike told his friends. "You have seen the low, mean things which that man Willy Flanagan would stoop to in order to defeat me. We have won in spite...
...line Party members well know Charles Dirba, a blue-eyed, stoop-shouldered, middle-aged Lett, conscientious, able, hard-working who for years has run the Communist Control Commission that passes on expulsions from the Party. When one comrade wishes to denounce another comrade, he writes out his charges, sends them to Comrade Dirba. Comrades may denounce each other as police spies, wreckers, Trotskyites, Lovestoneites, grafters, stool pigeons, for spreading stories about the central committee, for social fascism, for individualism, for anti-Party tendencies, for rotten liberalism, rotten intellectualism, conciliationism, for having personal relations with Trotskyites, for white chauvinism, for Zionism...
...television cannot yet transmit color-Charles Sheeler's dryly accurate paintings can scarcely be told from his camera studies of similar scenes. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art's show could more readily distinguish between his canvases and photographs, see also his drawings and industrial designs. Stoop-shouldered, scholarly Artist Sheeler, 56, likes to paint barns, skyscrapers, old furniture, factories. All these meet the Sheeler fondness for functionalism. Ignored in his paintings are men and women-inefficient machines capable of measuring the stars...