Word: forthwith
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...When the kissing stopped, he introduced himself as Henryk Szeryng, a 32-year-old music teacher at the National University of Mexico. Intrigued at finding a countryman so far from home, Rubinstein inquired: "Do you play at all?" Yes, his compatriot admitted, "I love to play the violin." Rubinstein forthwith invited the violinist to his hotel room for an impromptu audition. Recalls Rubinstein: "He played Bach sonatas and reduced me to tears...
...memoirs of show-business people, unless ghosted, frequently read as if they were dashed off in a day, and Levant's is no exception. Whatever popped into his mind apparently was set down forthwith, without regard to organization or even grammar, and when the whole had achieved book length, he sent it along to the publisher with orders to alter not a single line...
...hugely enjoyed by Southerners, themselves too weak and divided to mount their own filibuster. Last week Dirksen, Mansfield and Katzenbach provided what they hoped would be an acceptable compromise. The anti-poll-tax amendment would be dropped. But a substitute clause would direct the Attorney General to file "forthwith" in Federal court a test case designed to outlaw any poll tax whose purpose or effect is to deny the right to vote in state or local elections. If the case is won and the decision upheld by the Supreme Court, that will be it. "We are of the opinion," crooned...
...sort of Brazilian Dreyfus; letters of protest poured in from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and François Mauriac, and Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet. Last week the federal supreme court unanimously granted Arraes a writ of habeas corpus-in effect, ordering his release forthwith from Fort Santa Cruz across the bay from Rio. His jailers simply ignored the order, as well as a brusque telegram from the supreme court president directing the generals to "accept the decision just as it was communicated...
...memorandum was signed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and ad dressed to all U.S. embassy personnel overseas. Strictly taboo, forthwith, is that fine old tradition of turning a tidy buck by peddling the autos brought into their host countries duty-free under diplomatic immunity...