Word: cymbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon by Madeline S. Pereny was a rhythmic arrangement of four Negro dancers, four Negro cymbal players and a flautist, all under a glowing moon...
...last week from London came gossipy reports of the jokes he told during his recent visit there. Once a Negro preacher introduced him to his Negro congregation as "a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." Once a woman parishioner, disagreeing with him, shouted angrily: "I am a Christian woman which it is evident...
...Monday, known to so many human beings as wash day, and to so many more as just another week, brings compensations. And today, in particular, should be heralded with clash of cymbal and blare of trumpet. Today opens the Pops...
Tired pianists who have practiced all day until their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they...
...which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...