Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instead of string and wind instruments, the Javanese produce their music with a complex system of gongs, bells and celestas, achieving a cohesion of rhythm beyond the hopes of an occidental orchestra." Different gamalongs, said Stokowski in an awed whisper, played long, complicated programs in different courtyards without leaders and without mistakes. "I tried," said the leader of the Philadelphia Symphony, "to arrange with a Javanese prince to send his entire orchestra of several hundred to Philadelphia . . . they are splendidly barbaric...
...shoe-string." The decisive vote is the "floating" vote which can be polled only by distributing, or allowing to be distributed, money for the precinct organizers. The money does not actually "buy votes." It is paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner" fetches about...
...archer the cry he-he means no silly giggle: it is the traditional cry of one archer to another in the distance. To the listener a pair is two; not so to the archer, for in toxophily three is a pair. To nock is to fit the string into the notch at the arrow's end. To fletch is to feather an arrow. In Queen Elizabeth's time (1533-1603) archery flourished, waned. Not until 1781 and the organization of the Royal Toxophilites Society, was there a revival...
Meanwhile the futility of hired soldiers preyed upon Machiavelli's thoughts. By dint of pulling every known string, he was authorized to organize a national conscription similar to the system he had noted...
Tomorrow night the polo team's string of ponies will be shipped to Rye, New York, in preparation for the intercollegiate tournament, which starts Saturday afternoon with games between Yale and Princeton, and Pennsylvania Military Institute and West Point. Harvard drew a bye in the first round, and its second round opponent is still unknown. The team leaves Cambridge Saturday morning for observation of future rivals, and for the dinner Saturday night at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club...