Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philharmonic Conservatory. Because he was late in applying, and because there were only a few places left in the conservatory orchestra, the only scholarships open to him were for instruction on 1) the trombone, 2) the bassoon, 3) the string bass. As the least of three evils, young Koussevitzky chose the bull fiddle (string bass). So expert did he become that eventually he toured Europe as a soloist on this clumsiest of instruments, was widely hailed as the world's No. 1 bull fiddler...
From the $600,000 collection brought by courier, Zog chose a diamond tiara, a bracelet, brooch and two rings. The courier and his jewel box then boarded a Rome-bound Ala Littoria (Italian) airliner for his journey to Paris. After crossing the Apennines, the liner plunged into fog, suddenly smashed into the slope of Mt. Altino near Formia. The jewel box hurtled clear, burst open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they...
...Republicans who turned out to vote, three-fourths chose lanky Leverett Saltonstall, 46, a blue-blooded Back Bay clansman, whose ancestors include Colonial Governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut, old Harvard oar, former Speaker of the Massachusetts house...
...renominated with Governor Wilbur L. ("Uncle Toby") Cross by convening Democrats. Republicans named John A. Danaher for Senator, Raymond E. Baldwin for Governor, and to give their ticket some of Mr. Cross's scholarly background (he was for 14 years dean of Yale's Graduate School), chose President James L. McConaughy of Wesleyan University for lieutenant-governor...
...Michigan, Republicans, in numbers far greater (3 to 2) than the Democratic primary voters, chose Frank D. Fitzgerald to run in November against Governor Frank Murphy, who ousted Mr. Fitzgerald in 1936. No Senator was involved: all incumbent Representatives (eight Democrats, nine Republicans) were renominated except Democrat George Sadowski who lost to Mayor Rudolph Tenerowicz of Hamtramck...