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...nicely balanced performance of a Bach aria with obbligato, they presented Gustav Holst's Four Songs for Voice and Violin. Holst wrote these to please a friend who said she liked to sing as she fiddled, but on presenting them to her the composer was told, "I can only hum when I play." As long as two performers are necessary, Holst could have wished none better than Hurwitz and Miss Smith to present his simple, modal settings...
...dial. Step 1. "Look in the directory for the number [you have your choice of several]. If the information is not in the directory, dial 'Information'," (which seems logical enough). Step.2. "Lift the handset." (Yes.) Step 3. "Listen for the dial tone before dialing. This steady humming sound tells you that the dial equipment is ready for your call." (Boy! This is one hum we want to hear talk!) Step 4. "Go to heck." (This is surely a misprint, else, first steps are indeed misleading!) Then, there can be no mistake, it says: "One and two party line WOodlawn customers...
...angry chatter of an electric jack hammer replaced the usual quiet hum of conversation last night in Winthrop House as a central drainage pipe went on the rampage...
...Watery Mind. At this, "a number of bees quietly biding their time in the national bonnet sprang to life with an angry hum." Everyone, including the canon, knows that the nuns did skip over fires on Midsummer Eve, but this is nothing to the big fact that no Englishman -and a writer at that - can "put down" an Irish priest in his own parish. The Englishman, of course, cannot see the logic of this, and takes the unreasonable attitude that his own good name is at stake; he will not let the London newspaper pay off. The case sets...
With primary day approaching, however, every sign indicated that the voters who might have decided the Florida primary will ho-hum and stay at home...