Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dame Myra Hess, Duo-Pianists Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, Manhattan's Ray Lev are among Uncle Tobs's famed virtuosos. To plain people, the chief point of the elaborately philosophical Matthay principle (Matthayites hate the word method) is: no dry, mechanical finger drilling. Matthay-trained teachers are still a distinct minority among the 100,000 piano-marms of the U.S., but Matthay-like ideas are moving in. About one-third of the nation's 1,500,000 piano students are no longer subjected to those scramble-noted exercises composed by implacable Karl Czerny, who is widely...
...stopped, later teach them how to make tourniquets to stanch hemorrhage. For asphyxia and drowning, students are taught artificial respiration. For poisoning, they are given one good old rule of thumb: dilute the contents of the stomach at once by filling the victim with water. Then stick your finger down his throat till he throws...
...minutes six of the white men of peace were violently sick. The fruit had been poisoned. Still no member of the expedition laid a finger on his rifle. Even when the Chavantes attacked them with poisoned arrows and slashing machetes, the white men did not shoot. Only one man of the seven escaped into the jungle...
...Ross went to interview the 99-year-old sage of Baker, Ore., she was introduced: "Papa, here's Nancy Ross come to see you from New York. Not Betsy, but her niece." The old man took one look at her nail polish and said: "Terrible wounded in every finger...
...Wife," an eternal triangle comedy, has Melvyn Douglas as the goal of both Ruth Hussey and Ellen Drew. Not quite reaching the heights of "Third Finger Left Hand," the show offers a clever plot and scintillating dialogue. It makes an unusually good double bill in these days of sorry second features...