Word: arb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera for the first half season, then Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, Walter Damrosch himself, Maurice Ravel, coming from France, and Enrique Fernandez Arbós of the Madrid Symphony...
...Story. The romance of Henry Earlforward, middle-aged bookseller of Riceyman Steps, Clerkenwell, and of Violet Arb, well-to-do widow, past 40 who had recently inherited the confectioner's shop across the way, was an odd but happy linking together of two penny-pinching temperaments. The grand passion of Henry's life was for solid cash ? a passion so strong it attained the proportions of self-sacrificing heroism. When he discovered on the eve of his marriage that Violet had actually been paying their mutual charwoman, Elsie, less than he, he glowed to think what a wonderful wife...
...poor Elsie! Poor Henry and Violet, too ? for Violet proved too insufficiently nourished to rally after the operation and Henry died the next morning in front of his beloved safe. The whole story, including Joe and Elsie, furnished a three days' sensation for the news papers ? the Arb-Earlforward fortune was ironically inherited by a brother who had not seen Henry for 30 years ? and only Joe and Elsie, the humble, got any lasting happiness out of the whole affair. They were married as soon as Joe was convalescent, and one certainly hopes that Doctor Raste, their...