Word: harped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards divided into eight suits. In the first four suits the values run from one to ten, with one the lowest. In the last four suits they run the opposite way with ten the lowest. A few of the more picturesque names of the suits are Ghulam, Slave; Chang, Harp; and Burart, Royal Diploma. The name of the pack is Gunja-Kha, which means "Relieving Scalp." They were invented to keep the hands of the king busy so that he would not scratch his head, or, as another version of the tale has it, so that he would not pull...
...travels with the performers, prefers to drop in on them when least expected. On one such occasion he arrived in New Orleans during a matinee, met the company harpist ambling along the streets. The player tried to explain that the opera was Rigoletto, that the score calls for no harp. But Gallo was not to be placated. He saw to it that for the Rigolettos thereafter the harpist went into the pit, played...
...after their engagement was announced, Senator McAdoo took Doris Cross to "Beall's Pleasure.'' ancient, ivy-covered Maryland home of his daughter, Mrs. Brice Clagett. There, to the tinkling of a large golden harp, the gaunt, grey Senator and the small, brown-haired nurse quietly took their vows...
...Mother was going to be a social somebody. ... I had to learn to play the harp ... so my mother could point to us and say, 'My talented children.' . . . When Mother broke her leg, Father said he was awful sorry but he was sure glad to have her away for a while." The jury awarded Helen's mother $100,000 but the judge set the verdict aside as against the weight of evidence and soon thereafter Illinois outlawed such suits...
...knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled in gutter fisticuffs is more fun than harp-twanging, she is the favorite household pet of everyone except Mrs. Parker. That she finally succeeds in winning over the entire cast is evidenced when at the end the whole family partakes of Mulligan stew-Ginger's favorite dish-in a garret room. "This," cries the elegant Mrs. Parker...