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Walter

[ vahl-ter wawl-ter ]

noun

  1. Bru·no [broo, -noh], Bruno Schlesinger, 1876–1962, German opera and symphony conductor, in U.S. after 1939.
  2. Thomas U·stick [yoo, -stik], 1804–87, U.S. architect.
  3. a male given name.


Walter

noun

  1. ˈvaltər WalterBruno18761962MUSGermanMUSIC: conductor Bruno (ˈbruːno), real name Bruno Walter Schlesinger. 1876–1962, US conductor, born in Germany: famous for his performances of Haydn, Mozart, and Mahler
  2. ˈwɔːltə WalterJohn17391812MEnglishWRITING: publisher John . 1739–1812, English publisher; founded The Daily Universal Register (1785), which in 1788 became The Times


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For as much as Walter was a maniac, he was at the forefront of printing art.

Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.

He then added, unhelpfully, “All English writers are the same; Walter Scott excepted, all lack a plot.”

Earlier this year, 78-year-old Walter Williams found himself in a similar predicament.

Rep. Walter Jones, an antiwar Republican, was one of the few to give voice to the problem.

Walter Bellamy, Esquire, sitting in state, received his friend and partner with many smiles and much urbanity.

The plans and objects of Mr Walter Bellamy were best known to himself.

Sir Walter Scott smoked in his carriage, and regularly after dinner, loving both pipes and cigars.

Walter Mildmay, an English statesman, died; founder of Emanuel college.

Walter Fetherston was a writer of breathless mystery—but he was the essence of mystery himself.

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