Word: harps
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...learns it has bit off more than it can chew. Will Stockdale is not mean, but too dark an eight ball for even a general to stand behind. He is drafted after a pitched battle on Tobacco Road and in the barracks blows doleful music on his mouth harp to the tune Mother Ain't Dead, She's Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection day, the colonel almost jumps out of his uniform when Will jerks the wire he has rigged up and a long line of latrine seats comes...
...cheers in what is probably the longest role ever written for a boy soprano. The score as a whole (written for a small, 13-piece orchestra) skillfully skirted the fringes of the action, ranging from moments of movie-score drama to Peter and the Wolf simplicity, including a lilting harp passage to accompany the children and wailing sirens for the ghosts...
...were out in force to welcome Liberace to Madison Square Garden. While boxing fans withdrew trembling to the shelter of their favorite saloons, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 jammed the Garden; about 80% were women.* With a roll of drums, the crash of a gong, and a harp glissando, Liberace bounced onto the stage, wearing a snowy-white dress suit (later he changed into a gold lamé jacket...
...While Keats was beginning shy pleasantries with Fanny Brawne in Hampstead, he was also conducting a more full-bodied relationship with Mrs. Jones at her house in Gloucester Street−"a very tasty sort of place," Keats called it, "with Books, Pictures, a bronze statue of Buonaparte, Music, aeolian Harp; a Parrot, a Linnet, a Case of choice Liquers...
Cooney Weiland's sextet was clearly the superior team, but it was a far cry from the hustling sextet that topped Dartmouth last Saturday. Time and again, smooth play making by all three Crimson lines worked the puck behind the Terrier defense, but Bradley's harp defensive work and Crimson listlessness around the not combined to keep the score close all evening...