Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting started ten minutes late. (Some people thought it was really ten years late, or ten centuries.) In a solemn procession led by parliamentary messengers, who looked like headwaiters except for their chains of office, walked France's mastiff-faced Edouard Herriot. He climbed the rostrum, opened the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe...
Anti-Communists hoped that the casino would fold, and with it the republic's leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...
...world in the eyes of the National Boxing Association (a title good in 47 states). Last week, as he squared off against tired old (34) Gus Lesnevich in Yankee Stadium, he was out to impress the big holdout: the powerful New York State Boxing Commission, whose chairman, Eddie Eagan, thought that Charles ought to prove himself further...
...final days of training, Charles was reported to be peeved at Eagan, disturbed over the prospect of a small gate,* and annoyed over ruckuses among his backers. Among other indignities, sport-writers had taken to calling him "Snooks," a nickname they thought aptly distinguished him from the "Maulers" and "Bombers" of the hard-punching past...
Composer Milhaud's tidy explanation: "A lady, an old friend of the family, brought me a little book of manuscript paper . . . from about the year 1840 . . . I like very much little antiques and I thought I shall use it ... I found there were eight staves on the paper. I thought it is not my plan to write an octet. I had thought to write quartets. And then I thought why should I not write two quartets in that little book and make an octet out of them...