Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watchmaker, bearded Aaron Dennison was something of a genius. He invented an automatic cutter for watch wheels in 1833, and fathered mass production for the U.S. watch industry. As a businessman and founder of the famed Waltham Watch Co. of Waltham, Mass., his renown was of a different sort. His crazy ventures and his carelessness in letting his company go broke earned him the nickname, "Boston lunatic...
...lower lobby is devoted to the works of Joel Chandler Harris. Some of Harris' letters, manuscripts, and criticisms of his stories are exhibited, including the "Uncle Remus Stories," "Stories of Georgia," "The Story of Aaron," and "Tales of the Home Folks in Peace...
...bald, wizened little man whose greatest fear is that he won't live long enough to complete works he has started. Sixteen years ago he completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood and power to compose the third act." Inspiration, he explains, "comes as mysteriously as hunger-and must follow the digestion of a lot of other things. One has to wait until one is called upon...
...Henry II), in which the Count glares at death over a shoulder-high shield. Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold and copper that abounded in the region of Limoges, lay in frozen lakes between the ridges of metal and islanded gems...
After lunch, Stravinsky usually tends to stacks of personal and business correspondence (in four languages: Russian, French, English, German), sees friends and sometimes visitors, whom Stravinsky likes or dislikes instantly. Says one of his intimate friends, Attorney Aaron Sapiro: "When I bring a guest to his house or a person who wishes to talk to him, Stravinsky will excuse himself after a few minutes, call me to the hallway and say either 'take him away, he's insincere,' or 'I like him, we will enjoy this...