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That they concentrate on technique rather than trauma does not mean of hazard, however. They, like the nervous beginners, know that accidents can happen...
Miss Boron bore on doggedly through the final chorale, but she stumbled frequently over many notes and missed others completely. Her articulation was hap-hazard, and she often changed registration in the middle of phrases against all musical sense. Her rhythm was shaky, and in some fugues wilfully distorted to the point where all meter had wholly vanished...
...manner in which women set their caps for a peer ("One day he'll come along, the duke I love," Nancy Mitford's sister Deborah, now Duchess of Devonshire, once prophetically crooned). Especially guilty, says Hall, are American women, who represent "the most substantial marital hazard." Says Statustician Hall: "They are just that much more unstable than, say, a clergyman's daughter. Some 43% of second and third marriages by English peers to American women have so far broken up. Let's face it, if a peer marries an American...
...been a boys' school, and is being razed to become part of the campus of a girls' college. Ochre Court, built in 1888-91 by Ogden Goelet, is a Roman Catholic women's college. The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt and Belcourt, the house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, are tourist attractions; The Breakers draws some 50,000 curious trippers a year at $1.75 a head...
...weighted at one end so they floated upright with 12 ft. of their length underwater-they blocked the mouth of a Lower California lagoon. The buoys were set soft. apart, making a loose barrier across the channel; on the bottom near by, the scientists spotted two underwater microphones. Their hazard to navigation in place, the scientists retired to their research boat to wait for porpoises to swim through the channel...