Word: spoiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing has seemed to spoil the boy or make his approach to music commonplace. When he was playing the Brahms Concerto in Minneapolis, he forgot a part of the slow movement. He made no effort to cover his-lapse as most violinists would have done. With perfect poise he stepped up to Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, asked him to start the movement over again...
...stations. Similar dinners were also taking place in Paris, London, Berlin, Geneva, Mexico City, Havana, Moscow, Manila. Aboard the 5. 5. Resolute off Bombay, and the S. S. Reliance in the West Indies were more dining Columbians. In Shanghai, Columbia men were determined not to let Japanese shot & shell spoil their...
...many years replace canned foods in city kitchens. Machines have been perfected to bring this about, Charles Walter Thomas told a Manhattan assembly of mechanical engineers. The machines remove 90% or so of water from the foods (leaving them in a compact, dry condition), remove oxygen (which helps spoil foods), wrap and hermetically seal the dried products. When thus dehydrated, carrots or spinach are reduced to one-tenth of their volume weight, but when again watered cannot be detected from those taken fresh from the garden...
Capt. Edgar Nutter, a doddering petulant man of 74, charged his brother with assault. He said that one hot summer day when he had been sewing an eyeshade for his weakened eyes, Capt. Fred Nutter had come into their room, put a calendar in the window to spoil the light, then whacked him with a monkey wrench. Capt. Edgar Nutter angrily insisted that his brother was too "bossy," that he should be safely jailed before he killed someone with the shoe-hammers and wrenches which he habitually used for weapons...
...holding on to their money so frightfully and causing all this depression we hear talked about. Still if they've got it at all they'll spend it for what they want. . . Look here! What d'you suppose they did in Texas. Listen to this, mind you. Just to spoil our business, and with the whole year in which to do their own, someone booked a Shakesperean company directly ahead of ours...