Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...short while later, her unorthodox make-up perfectly accenting her expressive features, Carol Channing took her place behind the footlights, her solemn technique rewarded by waves of laughter pouring in to her from a packed house. To anyone watching from the wings, it was obvious that the new star knew exactly what she was about...
This season the same team minus Walter has worked it back to first-class shape. Last week came a decision. Leopold Stokowski, 67, informed the directors he would not be available next season; the board voted unanimously to make 53-year-old, egg-bald Dimitri Mitropoulos the Philharmonic's regular conductor...
Victor will continue to make its 45-r.p.m. records, but within the next three months "appropriate" new recordings will also be put on Victor's version of LP. More important to record buyers, Victor will dip into its library and reissue on LP such of its old masters as "can be rerecorded without loss of quality and tonal fidelity." That will include most of the great records made in the last decade by Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Marian Anderson, John Charles Thomas, many another star in a catalogue of classical music without parallel...
...Pete Newell's description of Substitute Willie Wong as "exceptionally fast, intelligent and a good shot." Lamented Rodney: "The inclusion of 'intelligent' was a subtle form of chauvinism ... I had thought of it as part of the reason why a player of only 5-4 could make a college team . . . Looking back . . . it is clear enough that the SF mentor was expressing ... so called white superiority over those with darker skins, [by implying] that there is something newsworthy in a Chinese-American being 'intelligent...
...Certainly you aren't conceited enough to expect the honor of being chastised by my lord in person. He has better things to do. But he'll not deny me that pleasure. I'll satisfy you on horse or afoot with any weapon you please. Or make...