Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiled to himself as he adjusted the shower curtain and tested the water with his elbow. This was Thesis Day. He had noticed the red circle on his calendar as he slipped from his bunk that morning, and there was something expectant in the blue sky outside the window. Or perhaps he was expectant. He forced himself under the cold water to ready his wits for the long day ahead. He always thought better with his pores closed...
Most listeners find it hard to decide what it is about 39-year-old Violinist Spivakovsky's playing they like most. His technique is flawless, and his tone is big and humid. Some wonder if he gets both his tone and technique by holding his bow-arm elbow so high; orthodox violin teachers tell students who go to his concerts: "Listen but don't look." Wherever he gets it, Tossy's violin has power...
...studied in Berlin as a child, and even made a concert debut, but he stopped taking lessons when he was ten. When the Nazis came to power, he went to Australia on a tour and stayed there, giving concerts and perfecting, among other things, his high-elbow bowing technique. In 1941, he came to the U.S., got a job as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning...
...whole world, and lose his own soul?" Into the life of a gang-busting prosecutor (Thomas Mitchell) floats a mysterious character known as Nick Beal (Ray Milland). At first Beal supplies the prosecutor with evidence against a big-time gambler; then he stands at the lawyer's elbow, goading his political ambitions. By the time Mitchell has been persuaded to play ball with a corrupt, vote-powerful political machine, it is clear that his sly, satanic ally called Beal is really Beelzebub...
...hectic third period two minor fights broke out, Kittredge and Tom Moseley being the Crimson players involved, but no penalties were called. For the record no penalties being called seemed to be the order of the day in New Haven, as Yale players made copious use of the elbow as an offensive weapon and both sides engaged in aimless tripping and charging...