Word: fiddler
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...politics. In the present instance, our chief executive had the ill fortune to be baptized into an order that believed in playing politics for keeps, an order that could lead normally honest men to place personal power, the conceit to do as one pleases, above public interest. Nero, the fiddler while Rome burned, began as a good ruler...
...Bull fiddler. 5. Cellist...
...businessman, soft-spoken Francis ("Hank") Knight, 59, is first-class: he is a vice president of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. Musically, he admits that he is "a perpetual second fiddler." But he loves music, and has been playing chamber music (violin) for 30 years. Other Chicago music lovers have reason to be grateful to busy Banker Knight: he has seen to it that at the end of each year's Ravinia Park festival he gets the best of his favorite kind of music...
...second fiddling of his own. While his family sprawled on the living-room rug, he clamped a Stradivarius under his chin, launched into a Mozart quartet with three members of the famed Paganini Quartet. Grinned little First Violinist Henry Temianka: "He didn't get lost once." Said Second Fiddler Knight: "I only play with good musicians. Two punks would ruin the music...
...adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit brood (two brothers, two sisters) awake half the night. The weapon father Streit used was a history of the 83rd Regiment in the Civil War, which Clarence had been reading...