Word: string
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made a good start at his new job. This was a great relief to all concerned with the oldest U.S. orchestra. Arturo Toscanini's resignation, in 1936, had left the Philharmonic as limp as a discarded ventriloquist's dummy. His successors, British-born John Barbirolli and a string of guest conductors, had failed really to strike up the band. But when 49-year-old, grey-thatched Artur Rodzinski left the podium last week, the audience had heard some pretty musicianly music and even the skeptics were hopeful...
What made the situation worse was the fact that the two first-string guards were out of action after about ten minutes of play. Gibby King threw a terrific block on the first punt of the game, getting Paul Garrity off to a nice runback, but King had to go out three plays later with a back injury as a result of that block...
...like the old Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday Brunswick records--without Teddy and Billie. Best of all, for me, was the consistently fine trumpet of Frankie Newton, who later played at a slightly phenomenal cocktail party thrown in Lowell C-33 by Kenny Berol--duets with Johnny Fields (string base) and an empty punch bowl with the resultant roomful of loaded guests. It was almost like a Yale party...
...front of the house and laid me under a grapevine a few yards down the road. Out of a large cylinder he took two bottles. One held powder, the other liquid. He mixed the two in a bottle, which he hung to the grape arbor by a string, and prepared to inject me with plasma...
While the A team is away Worcester Polytech may send distance men down for a Charles River meeting with the Crimson B team, and it is possible that the second string Mikkola-men will also race on the 13th of November, when the post-exam schedule brings Tufts over to the Handicap Course...