Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most prodigious of all musical prodigies was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Heifetz Hofmann and Yehudi Menuhin showed a early genius for playing music that others had written but Mozart at four was composing a concerto, spilling ink all over himself. He was not quite six when his father, a Salzburg violinist, bundled him and his sister Nannerl into a coach, started showing them off to the rest of Europe...
...those who learned of the Muncie venture was Roy Dickinson, associate editor of Printers' Ink. Thinking down the groove of his own experience in the Army Intelligence Service, he telephoned small Carl Byoir, publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, with whom he worked when Mr. Byoir was on George Creel's Committee on Public Information during the War. (Mr. Byoir likes to tell how he once set a chorus of 600 U. S.-born Slovenes to singing their national anthem on a mountain behind the Italian front and caused 60,000 other Slovenes to desert from...
However, there may be a slight harm in this procedure. I am thinking of the earnest student who copies the lectures word for word and before finals underscores the statements in red ink, that they may suppose this is scholasticism and hand in to their professors similar regurgitations. Anyone with any imagination can see where this would end. Even the professors would in time take exception to it. Cambridge, February 17. (Name withheld by request...
...windows are flung open in Leverett, Winthrop, Adams, and Claverly* Houses, and even in Lowell House itself. Students whistle and shriek, alarm clocks ring; and everybody wails "Rinehart!"--the old Harvard wail. The bedlam lasts for about ten minutes, after which the High Tablers take a stiff drink of ink and go back to work. --New Yorker...
...instance, will serve soup, tea, and crackers at 9.30 o'clock each night, and will have afternoon tea for residents at least twice a week. The Juniors will have their annual tea dance for the freshmen after the freshman English composition examination Friday. Juniors say that only girls with ink-stained fingers and "exam" clothes will be admitted...