Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genial and mock-modest as this since he banged down his desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state-in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political fiddle has been ridicule of the Ku Klux Klan-a string which he has played with incessant vigor and variety. Reports last week indicated that Mr. White was unsettling the calculations of Republican Candidate Ben Paulen and the plans of Governor Jonathan M. Davis, Democratic candidate, whose...
Sunday evening in the Copley-Plaza a concert by the Durrell String Quartet, well-known and much applauded in Boston, assisted by Mr. Lee Pattison, one of the best of Boston pianists. They will play Smetana's Quartet "Aus Meinen Lebont and Chausson's Quartet in A major for piano, violin, viola and 'cello...
...dinner was accompanied by printed menus which gave a very technical note to the feast. Among the dishes listed were fresh killed boilers, string polygons, and a new sort of pie, 3.1416 The most unique part of the dinner was that it was served on Marks and Davis steam tables, according to the menu...
...Hawley placed special emphasis on a defense against forward passes. A large part of the time was devoted to combing over the scrubs for competent substitute material. The squad as a whole is said to be slightly under par, and the coaches are in particular need of good second-string men in case substitutions are necessary...
...Rome, sharing the applause with the great clown himself. Happy once more, proud of her success, Tito feels that at last his love can be declared. But on that vacation ramble things have happened and Simonetta's eyes and heart are now another's. When Tito sees the string of pearls that Luigi has sent, his tortured anger in all its horror returns and, cursing the moment when they met, he cries for vengeance on the passionate Lothario. Too late, Luigi declares his sincerity and asks for Simonetta's hand in marriage. She loves the gallant, so what is there...