Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story thins into a string of anecdotes as its author's activities and acquaintance widen. Still painting, he sees much of Whistler, something of Oscar Wilde, of which parasite wit Whistler says: "He picks from our platters the plums for the puddings he peddles in the provinces...
...Daughter of the late General J. H. Smyth, she is the composer of two symphonies, an overture to Antony and Cleopatra, a mass, the operas Fantasia, Der Wald, The Wreckers, The Boatswain's Mate, a string-quartette, four orchestral songs and some suffrage music...
...hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
...plugged songs on tin-pan pianos- those renegade instruments that stay up late, every night, in the back rooms of cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
Messrs. Moore and Brush have been busily collecting a string of Ohio newspapers. They own, besides The Marion Star, the East Liverpool Tribune & Review and the Salem News...