Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...solid mass which broke up and drifted apart...
...equivalent of "the eleventh hour"). The Gaullists still believed themselves to be the wave of the future. Some of their former cronies among the Popular Republicans, like ex-Premier Georges Bidault, were in favor of an alliance with the RPF. Only then, they argued, would French politics achieve a solid anti-Communist front and a government of decision...
...shabby little (950 seats) Theater an der Wien was packed. And Vienna was particularly pleased to see that the first two right-hand rows were solid with Russians who cheered with everybody else. It was not greatly surprising that the Russians had come-after all, the opener was Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, a longtime Russian favorite. The surprise was that they had joined inwith hearty applause for tall, dark-voiced U.S. Bass-Baritone George London (TIME, Jan. 9), who sang the title role...
...very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen Jan Boissevain, a wealthy importer. As her fame and royalties grew, her verse became milder, milkier and more conventionally...
Fifteen years ago, Joe Bushkin was the kind of talented kid who could sit in at the piano in any jazz joint in town and earn himself $10 a night. He couldn't read music very well, but he could climb all over the piano with a solid, hard-riffing style that earned him a lot of respect from people like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and others...