Word: stringing
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...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...
...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...
Deep in the African jungle, the natives halted sharply, stiffened, passed the word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing...
...third day M. Veenstra, Belgian's second string, came down in Spain, 800.miles from his starting point and was forthwith declared the winner. Later, however, it was declared that he too landed on the sea and it appeared likely that De Muyter after all would be declared the winner, although Van Orman, who had landed unassisted, was preparing to dispute his claim...