Word: violine
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...Whitney constructed a violin before he was 12, was an expert nail-maker at 16. In 1793 he invented a machine in which a toothed cylinder forced raw cotton through a mesh screen, thus separating the lint from the seeds. Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent was signed by President George Washington and two members of his Cabinet on March 14, 1794, and U. S. cotton, then no more than the material for a piddling domestic industry, began its history as a world commodity...
...break. His best newshawk friend is Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Recently a story went the Washington rounds to the effect that Senator Long did the unheard-of thing of calling informally on Correspondent Anderson at his home one evening, accompanied by two bodyguards carrying "violin cases." "Just dropped in for a chat," said the Senator. "Don't mind the boys here. They just look big because they have a couple of submachine guns along...
...Singer Lucienne Boyer, Charles Boyer is the son of a country merchant who had him taught to play the violin, encouraged his taste for writing and directing plays which he and his small friends acted in a granary. Early in the War, Boyer, at 15, ran an amateur company to entertain soldiers. On his visit to Hollywood in 1932, he played a chauffeur in Red-headed Woman, bit parts with Ruth Chatterton, Claudette Colbert. After building up his prestige abroad, he returned last year, made Caravan, went home again because he considered the next rôle offered him unworthy...
...Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex. Leginska pioneered valiantly if erratically, proved that women could wave a baton as capably as they could play the harp or violin. Last week, by coincidence, two lady conductors turned ambitious backs in Manhattan's Town Hall...
...quartet composed of Edward B. Greene '36, pianoforte; Malcolm H. Holmes '23, violin; Margaret Clark, viola; and Harold Sproul, cello, will play a program made up of selections from Mozart and Brahms...