Word: clavier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little man, Charles Clavier, 33, regarded the ship's radio equipment with dancing eyes. That was to be his job, to pick up weather signals midair; to study the air tides, take the radio compass bearings. It was work with which 18 years in the French navy, including four trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear...
...view of the lack of cooperation on the part of the crew, it seems highly undesirable that I should attempt to continue in the present position of head coach after this date. Much as I regret this step, nothing but harm can result where clavier confidence does not exist on the part of both oarsmen and coach...
Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM - Wallace Stevens - Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla...