Word: harping
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...numbers only 23, the total company 100-odd. Expense-conscious Fortune Gallo once spied the orchestra's harpist strolling down the street while a Rigoletto performance was going on, angrily inquired why he was not in the pit. To the harpist's reply that Rigoletto has no harp part, Gallo mumbled, "I'm not paying a harpist to walk the streets," ordered a harp part written in. Another time, Impresario Gallo avoided the expense of through Pullmans to Toronto by sending his troupe to Scranton, Pa. on excursion rates, thence by sleepers to Buffalo, thence...
Tires are far & away the biggest bootlegged item. Most local OPA or rationing board officials assert that there is little or no tire bootlegging in their district, harp on the fact that 80% of all new tires on the loose last December now rest in manufacturers' warehouses. But the remaining 20% is enough to support a brisk bootleg trade. Thus, of 3,500 tire dealers checked in the New York-New Jersey area, OPA itself found that at least 1% were actual violators. Of 1,575 dealers in five Western States, at least 60 were exposed as law breakers...
...editor who single-handled amassed this list of famous names, but who apparently could not reject the cast-offs to those authors who print their best elsewhere. The contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song for St. Cecilia's Day," combines with a host of insignificantly obscure poetry to bewilder the reader and to detract from the worthwhile portions of the issue...
...drifted across the water. Storms broke on the dark crest of Diamond Head, stalked down the swift slope to the harbor. But Hawaii was not the same. Alone in the great quiet of the Pacific, 2,100 miles from any continent, Hawaii waited. The tension was strung tight as harp wires...
...Pease's birthday parties, at his home in Manhattan, were arranged by his adopted daughter (whom he adopted when she was 46), were famed for their harp music, original poetry, fruit juices, ice cream and the number of reporters present. At one party Dr. Pease told the press about a horse of his acquaintance who had jumped off a cliff after some tea leaves had accidentally been mixed with his feed...