Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Simple Charleston. When he is not dancing, or groaning in a hoarse baritone, he circuit-rides the tables diagnosing customers' needs. Says Bruno: "The aristocracy lives in the nostalgic past; I give them nostalgic songs ... and for that they love my music. If I hear people speaking a foreign language, I always include songs from their countries." Aristocrats and foreigners alike seem to enjoy one of his prescriptions: his dance arrangements of familiar arias from Italian operas. So far he has turned bits from The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and Trovatore into sambas; one of his biggest hits...
Fire broke out in Dudley Hall for the second time in a week at 3 a.m. yesterday, when a short circuit in a lamp cord ignited $100 worth of surrounding fixtures in Room 22, including part of the wall, a bed, a day bed, and clothing were burned...
...inconspicuous. He was never a college football star himself, though he did earn baseball and basket letters at Brown ('16) and played enough football to get "the feel" of it. Like his fellow officials, he started with high school and frosh games, graduated in time to the college circuit. This year, for the first time in his career, Swaffield drew the top assignment in the control of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association, the Army-Navy game...
...Full Circuit. In Washington, D.C., an electric iron burned through the ironing board, started a fire, fell to the floor, melted a lead water pipe which put out the fire...
...last July the commission got another rude shock; the circuit court of appeals upheld Dollar. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, thus, in effect, ruling that the line should be handed back to Dollar...