Word: fiddlers
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Horatio's hero is always a prince in disguise, playing the part of a fiddler, a bootblack, a hired boy, but with at tractive, cheerful and resolute features under the dirt. His mother, always a widow, is tormented by the village squire, who plays the joint role of Penelope's suitors. The hero meets a stranger and rescues his child from drowning (or from a mad dog or a runaway horse). The stranger turns out to be a rich merchant, who gives the boy new clothes, then sends him on a mission, a sort of knightly quest...
...Fiddler. The swindle, said Boren, consists in selling utilities at inflated prices to cities which want to own their own. A prime example: sale of Nebraska Power Co., a subsidiary of American Power, to a citizen's committee of Omaha by Promoter Myers and Aller (TIME, Jan. 8). As part of the deal, Boren said that the Omaha Electric Committee "deliberately" paid $14,400,000 for "stock that cost the American Power $815,000," and whose earning power "might possibly justify a price...
...professionals who took jobs in the plant and found a chair in the orchestra waiting for them. White-collar workers fill a third of the chairs, but are by no means the top instrumentalists. A former Metropolitan Opera French horn player operates a lathe; the concertmaster (once a hot fiddler for Kate Smith) runs a milling machine. One of the touchiest problems faced by the coldly democratic organization was a none-too-musical Sperry executive who insisted on playing second violin...
Robert & Gaby. Fauré's prize student came from the most musical household in all Paris. Rue Rochechouart rang day & night with the exuberant music played by four uncles, a dozen aunts, a score of first cousins. Father, an actor, composed operettas; grandfather, an amateur fiddler, zealously watched the musical growth of each member of the clan...
...Follow the bent of your own mind-do not paint to order," wrote Mount in one of his notebooks. In his comfortable village, surrounded by well-off relatives with whom he lived, he could well afford to follow his bent. He was an accomplished fiddler and he was also fond of conviviality ("I must visit the ladies more frequently-go to apple peelings and quiltings"). Hangovers occasionally interrupted his work...