Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years the talented Waugh family has lived in Provincetown, Mass. Son Coulton is a ship painter & illustrator and nautical expert. Daughter Gwenyth, a costume designer, is married to Artist James Floyd Clymer. The combined Waughs own 13 houses in Provincetown, operate on a section of Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones...
...three older children, Jenny, Dottie and Joel, whose actions have importance in the unfolding of the story, are followed through critical phases of their lives. Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off when revenue officers shoot Berkely. Dottie is the viciously respectable member of the family. She marries a Cannel mill-worker, over steps herself in a plot to regain favor with the paternal grandmother who had disowned her father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back...
...world to give the violin recitals which made his name great and his family independent, his mother vowed that there would be no more prodigies in the family, that her daughters Hephzibah and Yaltah would remain at home with her. Last year Hephzibah, who at 15 is an expert pianist, made phonograph records with Yehudi of Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42) which took the prize for being the best made in France in 1933. Hephzibah's playing for the records was so skillfully mature that people began to doubt whether she had really been...
...French teacher and onetime member of the Foreign Legion, was taken into custody by the police after he had marched down the aisle, banged the orchestra leader over the head with a chair and made threatening gestures at Author Heywood. Negro Camara complained that, as a technical expert on the production, he had not received proper program credit...
...taught by the great French Organist Charles Marie Widor. Concurrently he studied theology, took degrees at the University of Strasbourg. A Protestant curate at 25, he became organist at 28 to the Societe J. S. Bach of Paris, later played tor the Orfeo Catala in Barcelona. Rapidly becoming an expert on the eschatological elements in Christ's thought, Dr. Schweitzer published in 1906 his epochal work The Quest of the Historical Jesus. But he felt satisfied neither as a man of letters nor as a man of Bach. A statue of a savage Negro turned his mind and later...