Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They played Haydn's Quartet in D minor, Brahms' Quartet in C minor; then, after a rest, they smiled among themselves, stroked the glossy wood of their instruments, began to play a strange composition. It was Ernest Schelling's Divertimento, for string quartet with piano obbligato. (Schelling himself was at the pianoforte, 'for this was the first time that his composition (dedicated to the Flonzaleys) had ever been played. There were critics who instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events...
...three centers. Green has been in the infirmary most of the week, and will not be able to don a uniform until the middle of next week, McCurdy, like Slocum, has a sprained ankle which has kept him from practice since the Hebron game. Lane, the third string center, has been troubled with a painful foot all week, and will not be used except in an emergency, today. The other casualty, Oothout, will probably start the game, but he is not yet in good condition...
...spite of this string of injuries, coming one on top of the other in the past week, Coach Drohan was fairly cheerful last night about the prospects of his team today...
...strongest school boy team in Maine, came from behind late in the second half to snatch victory from the Crimson first year men. The 1928 quintet was handicapped after the first few minutes of play by the loss of Slocum, the brilliant right forward, and of McCurdy, the second string center, who started the game in Green's place. Both received ankle injuries which may keep them out of next Saturday's game...
Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...