Word: stringes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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While the Reds were splitting a double-header with the Boston Bees last week, 29-year-old Willard Hershberger, the Reds' second-string catcher, remained in his hotel room. When friends went to look for him they found that he had slit his throat with a razor. Alleged reason: despair over i) the Reds' loss of a double-header day before; 2 ) his own batting slump...
Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for String Quartet (Dorian Quartet; Columbia). U. S. Modernist Copland, famed recently for his score to the picture Of Mice and Men, experiments, in these early items, like a tired cook in search of an unprecedented sauce, leaves out the meat...
...suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...
...During World War I, they claim, there was a deep cleavage in U. S. sentiment: "To upper-class America, the Allies truly represented civilization, for England's culture was their culture too." So the upper classes foisted World War I on the rest of the U. S. "The string quartet played dinner music as upper-class America marched...
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro (Laura Newell, harpist, John Wummer, flautist, Ralph McLane, clarinetist, the Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: three sides). Elegant French fancy work, in its best needling to date. The harp and strings have been working the other side of the street, as the New Friends of Rhythm...