Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known as "Elmhurst." This he crammed from cellar to garret with costly knicknacks. There were gold plated bathtubs, tables of green malachite, huge bronze angels in the hall clutching armfuls of electric bulbs; paintings, tapestries, cabinets of jade and precious stones...
...their time and bring the family kudos is to be prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed to do so by their father. Last week was published...
...found balm for his fevered brain. And he breathed a prayer of fervent thanks to Professor Greenough. For today at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, the Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour. The Vagabond breathed his wonted sigh. Like Cowper's "John Gilpin" he had gone...
...want something good now. . . . Anyway, I'm in damn good company! They wouldn't have Sheridan, or Goldsmith, and it's taken people a pretty long time to swallow Stravinsky. It was a good while before they'd receive Debussy. And God knows Bizet died in a garret! . . . And, dear Lord, what they wrote of Wagner! Dewey ?they killed him: . . . After all, you must not forget he said, 'You can fire when ready, Gridley.? Dewey looked into George Creel's eyes, and he said: 'The footprints of the American people are upon my heart...
...newspaper space with Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach as premier U. S. rare-book seller. One was a self-portrait, one was of Mrs. Sarah E. Shelton, traditionally Poe's inspiration for "Annabel Lee." The third was of his tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest signatures to forge. Careful Bookman Wells took his pictures...