Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literary world shook with a double-barreled report: 1) Ernest Hemingway's first book since For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) would be out in March, and 2) Hemingway had been close to death last February when he started writing it. As his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that...
Into the White House went Swiss-born Sculptor Ernest Durig's bust of a smiling...
Peter A. Rubel, Richard T. Povill, and Daniel J. Young of Thayer; Derrick M. Wilde and Calhoun Dickenson of Holworthy; William W. James of Mower; Clayton L. Sommers of Massachusetts; Thomas W. Hoya and Richard E. Reed of Weld; Ernest T. Berkeley, Jr., of Lionel; Stephin L. Rudin, Waverley R. Beall, and Richard E. Johnson of Mathews...
With Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin also in Switzerland for a rest cure, Prime Minister Clement Attlee was left alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...
Bartok: Quartet No. 3 (New Music String Quartet; Bartok Recording Studios, 1 side, LP). Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet once described the late great Bela Bartok as "one who searches groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling." Composed in 1927, his Quartet No. 3 is crammed with rhythmic and harmonic search, and a few groans and smiles too. With this excellent recording, made by the composer's son Peter, 25, all six Bartok quartets are now on wax. Performance: good...