Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stand, the unfamiliar figure of Fritz Reiner, leader of the Cincinnati Symphony. Though aware that famed Leopold Stokowski was taking a year's leave of absence, they had half expected to see the sharp and mobile curlicue of his conjuror's face, to be entertained by the hunch-ings and bendings of his thin black back, to listen to the superb and golden music which he has been able to coax from his musicians. Reiner, the first of the guest conductors who will replace him this year, they knew would be acceptable; but they...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...audience, turned to the orchestra. He lifted his great arms and the entire orchestra fell under the shadow of his wings, very capable wings that have sheltered most of the prominent orchestras of Europe. New Yorkers, who like to see as well as hear, watched him fascinated, saw him hunch his great head down between his shoulders, pick with his long fingers short staccatos from the very heart of the orchestra; in a passage for strings saw him turn his back on half his band, scrunch himself down to a miserly six and a half feet and, hair waving...
...back rooms of cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
...Tigers, he is good enough, experts agree, to step into the major leagues today and be a big winner. Against him today Coach Slattery will use either Spalding or Toulmin, probably the former. The Crimson pitchers have not yet shown enough ability to make Harvard supporters sanguine, but the hunch persists that Spalding or Toulmin may do the expected, as Young did last year and Goode two years ago, and check the Purple intake...