Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough free patients to go round among the interns. Dr. de Savitsch was finally allowed to perform an operation. But he had no patient. For a week he prowled in search of one. One evening, in a Russian cafe, he noticed a man playing Otchi Tchornyia on the guitar. "Not only his face muscles, but his whole body writhed," said Dr. de Savitsch, "and I saw him make a frantic clutch at the seat of his pants. I could hardly wait for the music to stop. With little effort I persuaded the man to let me examine...
...game. Sandy-haired Tar Heel Herschall Carver, serving a life term, got out of solitary confinement where he had spent most of a year for misconduct, became the orchestra's best musician. Impressed. Warden H. H. Wilson furnished funds for the band instruments, presented Carver with an electric guitar. Drawled Carver: "I ought to learn to play this thing. I've got a lifetime...
...first, his arms full of quilt and baby, next a passel of children, then the woman, carrying the next to youngest. As a kerosene lamp flung shifting shadows on the plain pine walls, the congregation rejoiced, with prayers, a rousing sermon, hymn singing to Defendant McGehee's guitar...
...band for Variety Records. There was one lick in the record that I like especially, and when I next heard the band, I asked him to play me some "Limehouse" and especially that one phrase. So sitting in his dressing room, with one of the trombone men playing guitar, Mr. Berry played me twenty minutes of "Limehouse Blues" at a murderous tempo--all of it built around this one idea I had mentioned...
...junior singles tennis championship of the Pacific Southwest, a wardrobe like Clark Gable's, two automobiles, a hideaway apartment in Beverly Hills, a football team, a colored valet, a collection of pipes, a golf score in the 80s, an Oscar, the authorship of three nationally popular songs, a guitar, saxophone and two pianos, a set of stooges including two U. S. C. football players, a kiss from Bette Davis, a crown from Ed Sullivan, a broken leg, 80 chickens, three turkeys, three ducks, three geese, six canaries and a parrot...