Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newton made a good start when Feinberg took Morgan O'B. Preston 18-15, 15-6, and 15-11. Goldberg won a closer game from Henry P. Hoppin...
...inveigling the guilty man into betraying himself, the use of a dummy to draw fire from the villain's gun, the spiriting away of a threatened person under pretense of his death, and the complicated machine of destruction. In this picture the infernal device rivals the inventions of Rube Goldberg, for the ringing of a church bell--as innocent a phenomenon as you could hope to find--starts the train of deadly events...
Swooping down on the annual charity performance of the Society of Illustrators, Manhattan police found five naked girls prancing on the stage, hung coats over them, bundled them off to jail for indecency. The male audience, including Herbert Bayard Swope, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow and Arthur William Brown, at first thought the police were actors, laughed uproariously when they announced the show was closed. Then, indignant, many an illustrator traipsed off to court, asked why he should not see nude girls in a show when he painted the same nude girls daily in studios...
...pedals to give a great variety of tone quality and volume. Nevertheles the harpsichord with its thin, clear tone required a much more delicate touch than the piano, invented in 1711. Bach knew of the piano but thought it an unmusical contraption. He wrote such great works as the Goldberg Variations for the harpsichord. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was actually intended to tinkle along on the harpsichord but in his last sonatas he was the first composer to utilize the vast dynamics of the piano...
...seven Harvard men winning the scholarships are John P. Danforth '35, Hugo C. deFritsch '35, Philip M. Goldberg 2GE, Eugene H. Barlow '35, John J. McSweeney 2GE, Louis H. Marburg '35, and Bernard I. Small...