Word: flageolet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet. The rest of the comedy has been long hallowed in burlesque halls-the mad bellows and sobs of Harry Welsh as a shouting waiter; the kicks which short, tough Joe Phillips aptly places on female targets...
...From Mr. Koussevitzky's lowest string issues a tone purged of all raucousness, noble and superb, and from thence upward the scale is pure, euphonious, beguiling? upward to the region of the flageolet tones, where Mr. Koussevitzky's harmonies have a clear, ethereal and crystalline loveliness that challenges credulity...
...dollar bill. Then around the block. At half past nine, "Die Wacht am Rhein." Another bill, another glass. Upstairs, with his feet on a rocking chair, Herr Ehret paid no heed to his butler's complaints. Sometimes, if no band came, he played to himself on the flageolet, a sad and wandering air. Then to bed. He had bought real estate with his money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When...