Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry, the whirring of a standardized machine endlessly turning out a standardized article. There is no hope of salvation for it until a real composer takes it up and no real composer would touch it because it is too feeble and limited an instrument of expression for anyone who has anything to express...
Ettarre, whose instrument was her heartstrings and whose home was the waste behind the moon. By dint of a cunning decimal point, Madoc abbreviated her exile in that place, confounding the Norns, as he thought, and establishing his happiness. Then it is shown how, having attained the unattainable, his life lacked savor still, until Ettarre died, a grey wife and mother, leaving Madoc with memories once more elusive and indispensable...
...last a scrawled note was laid before the incessantly telephoning switchboard operators. One, Lucille Vanderbilt, broke down, sobbed into her instrument: "He's dead! Rudy's dead...
...prize to Pilot Walter Beach and his Wright-motored Travel Air No. 2. With perfect equipment, and higher speed than most, he had been able to leave the stopping places last and arrive at destinations irst; also, he was aided by an able navigator, Brice Goldsborough of the Pioneer Instrument Co. Notable was the failure of the trimotored Ford all-metal entries to finish. Flying one of these, Pilot R. W. Schroeder had the misfortune to chip a propeller, resulting in terrific vibration in that motor. Over Nova, Ohio, the motor tore loose from its mounting, threw a piece...
...from engine fumes." Cadillac. Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor mounting; new camshaft. Nash has refined motor, 25% more power, 23% faster accelerator, new instrument board. Oakland. "The rubber-silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more power and superior quality . . . new body lines, new colors, new mechanical refinements." Studebaker stresses "The President"; "custom car without custom car cost." Stutz. Safety glass in all windows and windshield, with no extra cost; new braking...