Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years ago Perry had taken his instrument East, dreaming of finding oil close on the edge of a vast industrial section. He had convinced two Rhode Island worsted merchants of the instrument's efficacy, had induced them to spend (up to last week) some $400,000, leasing 12,000 acres and sinking a test drill. All this in secret. Said one of the promoters: "This is just our little baby. We don't want people to laugh...
According to despatches, ex-Emperor Wilhelm II declared last week that every man is the instrument of God. Continuing, the once All-Highest said: "My whole life and work have been directed by the will of God, and that is why now a holy calm pervades me. The so-called democracy of today means death to the nation. It is an inadequate form of government, and the people within their hearts prefer the monarchy, or one-man rule...
...yard wide, weighing eight pounds, containing a steel comb which is picked by minute pincers when notes are struck on the keyboard above-such is the Pichetone-instrument which Inventor S. Giley of Moscow declares will supplant the piano. Russian musicians assert that it has a tone superior to that of the ordinary pianoforte...
...Europe, except England alone, likes women musicians. . . . In all the famous Continental bands, at Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam and Stockholm, women play as a matter of course -and play any instrument they please...
...Milan, one Lino Pagani has invented a new instrument-the mandolinarpa, strange Siamongrelute. From a mandolin neck bulges the warped body of a baby harp, edged with scrolls...