Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...beginning of the record, a tuning note and metronome boat are included to make things easier. At present, the only things available are for string quartet in the various parts but if the experiment is a success, the company intends to put out albums suitable for other instruments, even for amateur swingmen on "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Body and Soul...
Mary sat in the sun parlor of her home last week and wrote a note to the world. "My four kidnappers are probably the only people on earth who don't consider me an utter fool. You have your death penalty now - so - please give them a chance." Then she raised an automatic pistol to her head and pulled the trigger...
...Great Britain surrendered the right to attack belligerent ships outside the three-mile limit, said the note, German warships and supply vessels might be provided with "a vast sanctuary from which they could emerge to attack Allied and neutral shipping." Said Great Britain: if the Americas wanted to establish such a peace belt they should be prepared to keep it peaceful by policing...
...doctor had first killed his wife, the prosecution could not prove. According to English law, he was a murderer in either case. But what the jury wanted to learn was whether Dr. Lockhart was insane or not. He could not remember the event, but he had written a coherent note of warning, which seemed to indicate that he knew what he was doing...
Last week, in Philadelphia's Carlen Galleries, Horace Pippin had his first one-man show. Writer of its catalogue note was none other than the terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. (Argyrol) Barnes, owner of the finest private collection of modern art in the U. S. As a critic, Dr. Barnes is brusque but no booby. He compared Pippin's work to that of the most famed U. S. primitive painter, the late John Kane. Said he: "Kane is more romantic in spirit . . . but his work is less rugged, simple, picturesque and naïve, and is inferior...