Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...arteries, heart disease and acute alcoholism; in Manhattan. Retired from business, he was famed as the owner of many a great horse. In 1925 his Coventry and Flying Ebony (Earl Sande up) won two great races, the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby. In the past year his string (including Epithet, The Beasel, Flying Heels) won $147,920. In racing and in polo he was an associate of the late Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 3). Afflicted last year with tuberculosis, he was reported cured, was found dead alone in the vestibule of his apartment early one morning last week...
After the weekly high table at Lowell house tonight the Harvard Instrumental Clubs are scheduled to give their regular concert program for this year, while the Pierian Sodality of 1808 is to give a string concert in the dining hall of Dunster House after dinner, at about 7.15 o'clock...
...clock in the Music Building, where today's specialty it seems, is the grand finale of a fortnight of eighteenth century dances. The Vagabond is looking forward to the record of Frederick Stock conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bach's Suite in B minor, for flute and string orchestra. And after the overture, he will strain his ears for the stately rhythm of the polonaise, and the humorous, catchy tones of the badinerie, which shows Bach in his lightest vein...
...that M. George presumably means that Pierre Roy is not interested in the faces of prime ministers, prostitutes or the effects of the machine age, suitable subjects for Serious Artists. M. Roy is not. He is passionately interested in strips of colored paper, birds' eggs, bits of string, seashells, ribbons, planks with holes bored in them. He paints these with an exact technical dexterity which would do credit to Ingres, David or the 19th Century miniaturists, but in high, exciting modern colors...
...Homage to a Hostess" represents an other oak plank (with every grain minutely painted) from which hang a red-feathered trolling spoon and a string of speckled birds' eggs. Pinned to the plank is a sheet of blue notepaper with this message, in English...