Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year old, was taken along. The Menuhins scarcely ever missed a concert from then on until Conductor Alfred Hertz and all his musicians came to know them, and call the baby their mascot. Yehudi's first interest was in Concert- master Louis Persinger. He wanted to touch him, to finger the strings of his violin. When Yehudi was four years and ten months old, Persinger became his teacher. In five years he helped him to an almost uncanny understanding of his instrument. He did more when he did nothing to make the boy aware of himself or his talent...
...Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,? on the Susquehanna River. And so onward, between Senaco and Cayuga of the Finger Lakes in Central New York?trees, orchards, vineyards, farms. Due west of the lakes is Buffalo, great transshipping port for coal and grain...
...Hermann Keyserling, 47, head of the Darmstadt School of Wisdom, and creator of sensitive, soul piercing books.* Like the humming of a peg top is Count Keyserling's conversation. He chattered and he lectured in perfect English, last week, to lionizing Manhattanites, but so rapidly and with so much finger-waggling that some were abashed and others annoyed...
...Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready for a concert, if there is one, does five-finger exercises hour upon hour. His hobbies are billiards, bridge, books, cinemas, his ranch at Paso Robles, California, his villa on Lake Geneva. He is sixty-eight years old, but contrary to vogue, he refuses to name this or any other tour his last...
...TWOULD be like pointing a brutal, misunderstanding finger at a youth in his first long trousers to criticise this small book of poems from a Conrad Aikenian standard. Gently they must be handled, delicately discerned to have appreciated the sensitive, self-conscious moods, the awkward, almost blushing moments...