Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reads of ogres chopping off legs and arms to make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest...
...Ensemble owes its organization to Jacob Moskovitz '30, who is at present its manager. A very capable oboe player, he will render the part for that instrument in the "Fugal Concert" for Flute and Oboe, by Gustay Holst, the English composer who lectured at Harvard last Friday. The orchestra consists of 16 men in addition to Moskovitz, most of whom are members of the Pierian Sodality orchestra...
...England history, was an underlying chain of circumstances not visible in the simple announcement of the sale but well known to rival journalists, cranks, alarmists and vigilant patriots; a chain of circumstances which non-New Englanders viewed variously as a bit of shrewd industrial mechanism or as a sinister instrument to shackle Public Opinion, to strangle the Freedom of the Press...
...musicians turned democrat and announced not only that every player was a potential conductor, but that each would be given a chance to prove it. Conductor Stokowski explained: "I am going to have them conduct at rehearsals. The plan has other interesting possibilities. Often the first player of an instrument will wish to conduct. This will result not only in giving him the experience he desires but in enabling the second player to play first and the third player to play the second instrument. Thus all will gain in experience." Disinterested music-lovers eyed the experiment with interest. Philadelphians whispered...
...finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous consequences in the conduct of a formidable war−then I hold that that clear view, which I think I had in 1918, comes from a Providential Force in the hands of which one is an instrument, and that the victorious decision descends from on high, from a Will which is superior and divine...