Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front of a piano in Vienna. His narrow dexterous fingers sank into the keys of the instrument as if sowing in neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
...Heart Thief (Joseph Schildkraut, Lya de Putti). He is a young man of the Balkans for whose embraces the entire feminine population of those parts entertains a noticeable predilection. Therefore, he is called upon as the ideal instrument for frustrating a political marriage. So thoroughly does he execute his commission that the girl marries him. Joseph Schildkraut makes a jaunty flirt...
...Bullet Mecanique, which nearly precipitated a riot on its premiere in Paris (TIME, March 21). The young composer's theory is to express the U. S; in its own terms of steel, machinery, physical strength, without employing jazz. To this end he has created a symphony of percussion instruments, ten mechanical pianos, several xylophones, assorted bells, wind machines, aeroplane propellers, etc., abjuring completely more lyrical aids. The ballet is a thunderstorm of noise lasting a quarter-hour. Carnegie Hall, jammed to the guards, sat quite still for perhaps two minutes. Then men began shouting across the auditorium. Paper darts...
...Amendment). Aristocrat, rebel, descendant of sturdy Roundheads and men of law, Gouverneur Morris led the fight for the Declaration of Independence in his native state New York, helped draft the U. S. Constitution. His contribution to the Constitution is disputed. However, in 1804, Morris wrote to Timothy Pickering: "That instrument was written by the fingers which write this letter." James Madison wrote: "The finish given to the style and arrangement of the Constitution fairly belongs to the pen of Mr. Morris...
...political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which, when developed, may well be served by step-keeping public servants, journalistic and other wise, from foreign states...