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Said Lawrence Oilman, famed critic: "Mr. Wagner is 55 years old-of medium height, plump, white-haired, clean-shaven. In profile he looks like a blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan. His general aspect is that of a lymphatic vestryman. He is almost uncannily undemonstrative. . . . He conducts with astonishing casualness. . . . His listlessness makes the conductional apathy of Richard Strauss seem epileptic by comparison...
...blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan...
Suppose you try your first package of Reedsdale just to get this 100 per cent insurance feature, and then see if the connoisseur-blend of fine tobaccos does not prove an equally happy revelation...
...blend of the primitive. Carolina Mountain folk, their feuds, their love...
...wessel of wrath" finds full vindication in a diary of the sixteenth century which discusses "welwets, wacabonds and women" with no hesitation whatsoever. "Ojus", too, and "sparrowgrass" are not only in common use but are even preferred by the standard dictionary of 1790. "Cockney", continues the article, "that noble blend of East Mercian, Kentish, and East Anglican, which was written by Chaucer, printed by Caxton, spoken by Spencer and Milton, has, in a modified form and with an artificial pronunciation, given us the literary English of the present...