Walter

[ vahl-ter wawl-ter ]

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noun

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

Walter

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
ˈwɔːltə WalterJohn17391812MEnglishWRITING: publisher John . 1739–1812, English publisher; founded The Daily Universal Register (1785), which in 1788 became The Times

Walter drove one old blue Chevy station wagon after another — calling each the Blue Goose.

I sent the article to Walter, a trusted source on these kind of things.

The only guarantee is that Walter’s new tragicomedy about this moment of American history is one of the most captivating novels of the year.

If Walter had spent the whole series facing off with low-level drug dealers, his crimes would have eventually come to feel downright normal.

From Vox

Walter and Manglik hold patents on the specially designed nanobodies.

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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