Paderewski
Americannoun
noun
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The groups received the grants from the so-called Patriot Fund run by the Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski Institute for the Heritage of National Thought which is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2021
It’s understandable that Polish pianist, patriot and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski would get a statue from his native Poland, even though he died in New York.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2020
To catch them all, you needed to be able to play the remote control like Paderewski.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2017
When Wild plays, the pallid noodling that often passes for pianism these days vanishes: one hears the grand echoes of Paderewski, Rachmaninoff and Josef Hofmann.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were Paderewski, Houdini, Tesla, Edison, Joplin, Darrow, a Princeton professor named Woodrow Wilson, and a sweet old lady in black summer silk flowered with forget-me-not-blue named Susan B. Anthony.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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