Toscanini, Arturo

[ (tos-kuh-nee-nee) ]

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A celebrated Italian conductor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He spent much of his career in the United States. In his later years, he conducted the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Symphony Orchestra, which was organized for him.

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How to use Toscanini, Arturo in a sentence

The activist, an agronomist named Arturo Hernandez Cordona, is said to have replied.
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Arturo in particular built up the organization and aligned it with the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels in the early 2000s.
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CEO of the Winnipeg Humane Society, Bill McDonald, told CBC that videos of Arturo swaying side to side are alarming.
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If there be more than one brother, you address the younger one as "Arturo," "Ramon," or whatever his Christian name may be.
Spanish Life in Town and Country|L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
Arturo, the desk clerk, told him that Souza had taken the day off and that Pepe and Vicente had been called up with the reserves.
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Would Don Arturo grant the Donna his further counsel and presence?
Gabriel Conroy|Bert Harte
On his return, Arturo explains the circumstances, and they vow never more to part.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Cromwell's soldiers arrest Arturo for treason, but he is subsequently pardoned, and marries Elvira.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.