Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decide the question, the Labor government permitted a rare "free vote." Laborites could vote as they chose without regard to the official party stand. Only 75 Labor M.P.s heeded House Leader Herbert Morrison's plea to keep the death penalty. As the teller reported that 245 had voted to abolish the penalty, 222 to keep it, M.P.s cheered, shouted, wept and threw papers into...
...years now, the "poison" of Arturo Toscanini has been seeping out into the world. Drugged by it, millions of music lovers (and not a few critics) have come to regard all of the Maestro's music with dumb and unquestioning adoration. Certainly he has brought the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Verdi to life as no other man has. He is now a white-haired little man of 81, and when a human being reaches that age, his critics, remembering his finer hours, are apt to temper their judgments with mercy...
...regard to Sunday's elections in Italy, Mrs. Dean declared that the victory for the De Gasperi forces was only a reprieve from Communist control. "This gives us the chance to show this strong constructive program in action...
...rehearsal as a sweatered tyrant ("Don't spik! If you spik, I go!") who would exhaust them by demanding repetitions until his long-awaited "Vonnderful! Ah, vonnderful!" finally came. But they shared with him a fierce pride in their orchestra, which Bostonians-critics, musicians and public-regard as America's best. (Less partisan critics believe that the Boston and the Philadelphia are hard to choose between, with the New York Philharmonic a strong third...
...regard to space for rehearsals, Watson said "he (Borgatti) never complained to me," referring to the latter's allegations of repeated last-minute revocations of Sanders Theater permits...