Word: flute
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bowdoin has a flute club...
Overture, "Magic Flute," Mozart...
...with attempted dignity]. - Here are a few of the things that will be required of you. "To wait upon the table, take care of three children, help at the ironing, know how to flute [aside] (though I can't tell, for the life of me, what that is. I suppose its some musical thing for the children), dust the parlors, do the sewing. In the spare moments you will be ready to read aloud to my mother, and to wheel the perambulator. However [slyly], I don't think that will be very hard work, for the policeman on our block...
...been decided to have an orchestral accompaniment, introducing string-pieces at least. This is, of course, a departure from the ancient usage; for the flute and the cythara were the only instruments used by the Greeks...
...squeaks like the cry of the suffering flute...