Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountains near Uniontown, Pa., and who has the only telephone in her neighborhood, saw a bruised and bloody girl in a torn, singed uniform stumbling up to her door, escorted by a neighbor. The girl gasped that she must use the telephone. She called a number, clutched the instrument for support, steadied her voice when she got an answer. 'Mr. Williams, this is Nellie Granger, hostess on Flight I. The ship crashed and started to burn. . . . Both Otto Ferguson and Lewis [the copilot] were killed. . . . Nine passengers were killed...
...first, noted the audience, his tone wolfed and whistled a little. But as the ponderous instrument warmed up, Waldemar Giese began handling it with the ease of a cellist. Few composers have written exclusively for what jazzmen call "the dog-house." However, Bottesini's Elegie and Friedemann Bach's Largo earned Bull Fiddler Giese a pair of encores...
...discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson Davis ("Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson, they made contact with a longtime friend named Dennis Scanlon. Mr. Scanlon, who runs a surgical-instrument factory in Sweden but lives in Manhattan, promptly set to work to ballyhoo Sonja to Hollywood by way of a U.S. skating tour...
...four years in college, outside of a financial headache, I think it deserves a little more pains. Mightn't a polite request to those in charge do the trick? I feel it is a pity that the oldest college in the country should present its graduates with an instrument that compares unfavorably in dignity to the degrees of "Chirotonsor", which are so prominently displayed in the Copley Plaza barber shop. Arthur M. Jones...
Laws against performing abortions vary from Mississippi, "where an abortion is permitted by any person who acts on advice of a physician," to New Hampshire, "where any person who wilfully administers a drug or uses an instrument to procure an abortion is punished by fine or imprisonment...