Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been playing piano instead of mezzo forte, achieves on the next try a precise, organlike tone. If the first violins are a hair short of unity, he singles out the lagging fiddler, points out that an improperly held bow is causing his late entrances, illustrates by drawing his baton across his left...
...children of the class or in the clutter of an editor's desk. That was where we found it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble until we beat him a trifle with a Class Marshal's baton, rifled his pockets and hid him behind a sign marked "Michael Peebly Chowder and Marching Club, Sections MM-J6 Inclusive." Along with a time whistle, an Eliot Houce saucer, an Ibis, three Dunster spoons, a Shakespeare Folio and a sign from the Fogg reading "Please refrain from breathing...
Some figured that colorless John Bennett was merely filling in for the first lap, would toss the baton to Farley himself at convention time. Washington New Dealers-who want no part of Farley or a Farley lieutenant-made sweet cooing sounds to statesmanlike Owen D. Young, former General Electric board chairman, who might be persuaded to run if the nomination came on a dignified platter...
What the audience saw were the externals of the performance. Apple-cheeked Violinist Adolf Busch, acting as concertmaster, nodded his head, lifted his elbow occasionally as he fiddled, but used no baton. Behind this skin-deep sign of novelty lay a sinewy idea: Adolf Busch had chosen to build an orchestra that functioned, not like an orchestra, but like a string quartet...
...southeastern pipelines are also helping -one from Port St. Joe, Fla. 456 miles to Chattanooga; another from Baton Rouge, La. 1,270 miles to Greensboro...