Word: harps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the orchestra started playing, Mr. Schelling explained to his eager audience of boys and girls all about "the fiddles, big and little," that is, the stringed instruments, including the harp, which has the most strings of all. Pictures of the pieces that make a violin were thrown on the screen, and they showed how the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms contributed to its making, but the beauty of its tone came from a fourth kingdom?"the Kingdom of Heaven...
...HARP WEAVER AND OTHER POEMS-Edna St. Vincent Millay- Harper ($2.00). Lyrics, sonnets and one unforgettable ballad by one of the very first of our poets...
...must be explained that roque is the scientific descendant of croquet. Croquet to a roque player is like a Jew's harp to a flute player. Roque champions have refined the game down to the point that the arches are only a sixteenth of an inch wider than the balls. Yet their skill has increased to a point beyond which they cannot narrow the arches...
...closely identified with those who call themselves gentlemen." "Don't let society coddle you. What you are to do is to study what society is thinking and doing, and correct it in the places where it is wrong." " Sitting on the edge of a cloud and playing a harp does not appeal to me." " I protest against that patriotism which declares our country to be the greatest and always right, whether it is right or wrong." " The Ten Commandments should be rooted out of the Prayer Book. Too many Christians look upon them as forming the whole moral responsibility...
...Little lead Soldiers Pierne 4. Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Boredin 5. Overture Solennelle, "1812" :Tachailkovsky 6. Song to the Evening Star Wagner 7. "A Kiss in the Dar," from "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 8. Rondo Capriccioso Mendelssohr, Jacchia 9. Fantasia, 'La Travinta" Verdi 10. Largo Handel(Solo Violin, Harp, Strings and Organ. 11. March, "Washington Post" Sousa