Sol Hurok, the American “impresario,” arranged both tours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israeli Folk Dance Pioneers in North America.] Reference

For example, "taking your wife to dinner and treating it as a business expense won't fly," Hurok says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starting Up: Avoiding Business Audits] Reference

Mr. Hurok would lie and say he would do it, for he knew that was the only way to get the basso out on the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

For example, Chaliapin would call up Mr. Hurok about noon of the day he was going to sing and say, Sol, I feel terrible.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

When she returned to music, however, it was not as a pianist, but as an employee of the Hurok organization, promoting the careers of other young musicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teresa Sterne.] Reference

The tour to the United States which Hurok planned for the company was cancelled when World War II broke out and the company returned to Israel, where it was disbanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rina Nikova.] Reference

Mr. Hurok told me that one of the first lessons he had learned in dealing with his temperamental stars was the necessity for sympathy, sympathy and more sympathy with their idiosyncrasies.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

At seven-thirty the great basso would consent to sing, only with the understanding that Mr. Hurok would walk out on the stage of the Metropolitan and announce that Chaliapin had a very bad cold and was not in good voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

The well-known impresario Solomon (Sol) Hurok (1890 – 1974), who was in Paris at the time, took the Biblical Ballet under his wing, arranging a successful tour throughout Europe, including Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Poland, Finland and England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rina Nikova.] Reference

Sol Hurok was probably America’s number one impresario.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

At five o’clock, Mr. Hurok would again rush to his hotel, dripping with sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

Hurok tried to rent Washington, D. C.’s Constitutional Hall, the city’s foremost center, but was told no dates were available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Marian Anderson Historical Society] Reference

Hurok would have walked away with the response he’d received, but a rival manager asked about renting the hall for the same dates and was told they were open.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Marian Anderson Historical Society] Reference

Did Mr. Hurok argue with him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

In the words of Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok: "It blowed up good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogpulse Top Links] Reference

Zanthodon: 3 Hurok of the Stone Age - Lin Carter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Prose Fiction: Sojan - Daughter Of A Warrior King] Reference

Sol Hurok.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starling Fitness] Reference

Hurok, Sol, 193–94.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Win Friends and Influence People] Reference

Muff-diver Sol Hurok.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fever Dreams of Your FBI] Reference

And Hurok said, "Of course not, of course not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry] Reference

Martin Feinstein, who runs the Washington Opera now -- a good, old friend -- was then Hurok's press guy, and he said to Hurok once, "Mr. Hurok, do you really think that you can buy a good review with two little two-ounce jars of caviar?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry] Reference