Word: harps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...using the name of our city in your picture." Back cracked the Marxes: "Your excellency: Our advice is that you change the name of your town. It is hurting our picture. Anyhow, what makes you think you are Mayor of Fredonia? Do you wear a black moustache, play the harp, speak with an Italian accent or chase girls like Harpo? We are certain you do not. Therefore we must be Mayor of Fredonia, not you. The old gray Mayor ain't what he used...
Alone among Russian émigré writers, who have generally lost both prestige and potency after being cut off from their native country, Author Bunin has tuned his exile's harp with increasing skill, today stands head & shoulders above other White Russian writers. Unlike the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize is never awarded for any particular book; like his predecessors, Bunin is being honored for cumulative excellence. His best-known book is the volume of short stories, The Gentleman from San Francisco, in which the title-story is a grotesque fantasy of a rich American who voyages to Europe...
...aviation editor at $200 per week for William Randolph Hearst's Universal Service. No flyer, Hearstling Roosevelt has puttered around airplane engines, briefly managed a dinky air line in Southern California before getting his divorce. Of aviation he wrote as a layman to laymen, amateurishly twanging the Hearst harp for larger U. S. air defenses. ¶Swallowed up in last week's hurricane was the sloop Postscript manned by three young Manhattan neighbors of President Roosevelt. Out of Manasquan, N. J. for Nantucket had sailed Pierre Irving, 21, great-grandnephew of Washington Irving, and the Niles Brothers, John...
...divided? Twenty years a-growing, 20 years in blossom, 20 years a-stooping, and 20 years declining. From his first 20 years Maurice O'Sullivan recalls many wonderful things, and the swing and the lilt of his words make you think they were sung to the harp of Tara. When he was less than a year old his mother died, dear God bless her soul and the souls of the dead, so Maurice was sent to a school in Dingle since his older brothers and sisters had little more sense in them than he had at the time...
...strains of "Hymn to the Night" while the Men's Singing Club of Portland sang the words: ''Softly now the light of day fades upon my sight away. . . ." Large among the floral pieces which banked the music room was one in the shape of a harp, on which roses marked the notes of the first bars of the hymn. In several cities seven other pipe organs, gifts of Mr. Curtis, whispered the same peaceful melody that afternoon as his body was borne to its grave in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. Cyrus Curtis' death was a sequel...