Word: violine
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...rides on No. 99, few get inside "Uncle Dan's" white stucco house, which hides behind trees in Baltimore's smart Roland Park. There he lives with his wife and his two orphaned grandchildren, whose parents died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. He plays his violin occasionally, is a wretched golfer. Like many a railroad man, he goes to the office on Sundays. Like many railroad children, his grandsons like to go along, too. He owns the farm where he was born, farms it. He belongs to the Unitarian Church, drinks a little, smokes a little...
...Philadelphia") Jack O'Brien, old-time light-heavyweight champion, gymnasium proprietor, was announced as violin soloist at a concert of the New York Schools of Music, Jan. 23, in Manhattan. After his retirement from the ring...
...Manhattan, Guila Bustabo, a 14-year-old Chicagoan who looks like Artist Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, played the violin brightly for an audience which included Violinist Fritz Kreisler and three Philharmonic conductors-Erich Kleiber, Ernest Schelling, Arturo Toscanini...
...Manhattan Grisha Goluboff, 9, of San Francisco, played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto so deftly that critics spoke of him in the same breath with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, II, who was scheduled for a recital a few nights later in spite of his father, who protested in court last year that Guardian Elizabeth Lackey was injuring the boy by permitting him to play in public (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930), now has custody of child...
Most prodigious of all, Yehudi Menuhin, 14, wore his first long pants in London, to play Beethoven's Violin Concerto under Sir Thomas Beecham...