Word: stringes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lady's house (Mr. Devlin's own words-from Walter Daven port's Power and Glory). Penrose also had a simple credo: "The people will stand anything from a politician who refrains from annoying them." Boss Penrose, one of whose shoes was laced with a corset-string the day he met Matt Quay, despised personal graft as cheap pocket-picking, lived mostly for the pleasures of the flesh,* and for the perpetuation of high tariffs. Mr. Penrose was a member of the U. S. Senate from 1897 through 1920, but he never achieved his heart...
Artists who will preform Professor Hill's compositions are: the Chardon String Quartet. Georges Laurent, and Jesus Maria Sanroma, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Miss Doris Dee, of the Metropolitan Opera Company; and Walter H. Piston Jr., of the Music Department...
...program will include a String Quartet, Sonata for Flute and Plane, three songs, and the first performance of Professor Hill's Concertino Number 3 for Pianoforte and Orchestra...
...troopships made landings inside Fredrikstad before the week's end. A lot of noise at sea Thursday and Friday which observers took for heavy fighting was doubtless German countermining, i.e., firing depth charges to explode mines which, if laid too close together, may be touched off like a string of firecrackers...
Short, forceful, 40, he worked at Indusco with the nervous energy of a dye-stamping machine. He won Chinese workers by being able to tell jokes in many dialects, by adopting two Chinese sons, by repairing broken machinery with string, bamboo, chewing gum. All his work and hard travel (thousands of miles by bicycle) he endured not for personal gain but simply because he believed in China, in cooperative effort, in democracy...