Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first appearance was Harvard's way of showing that they did not approve of that incident in 1931 when one of the undergraduates throw a grapefruit at me during a performance in Boston. Incidentally, I was playing the saxophone at the time, an if that grapefruit had hit the instrument, the mouthpiece would have Jammed into my throat and either killed me or paralyzed me for life...
...more & more a prey to his fears." related Philadelphia's harem Princess. "The Sultan kept a revolver in his hand by night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were robbed...
...water. Heavily wooded areas look dark to him and he has difficulty distinguishing them from the oceans. The Sahara and Arabian Deserts look fairly bright, the clouds three times brighter still. In the African spring he sees the Nile valley turn dark with new vegetation. But unless his instrument is considerably more powerful than telescopes on Earth, he can see of man's handiwork not a trace...
...Gershwin was one of the first skeptical listeners but he signed the first sale order. Honest Fritz Reiner, Philadelphia's opera conductor, spoke praisingly at the first demonstration. Soloist was Organist Pietro Yon of St. Patrick's Cathedral (TIME, May 7, 1934). Under his command, the new instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console, in a bed of magnets...
...issue (March 25, p. 50) you speak of "the doctors treatises which warn all oboe-players against congestion in the head." W ill you please advise me whether this statement is facetious, and if not. what is your authority for it? I know that the oboe is an expensive instrument, but if it also turns out to be dangerous, something must be done...