Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country roads. In them are gaunt farmers, their wives in gingham and children in overalls, who crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings in the trial of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, alleged violator of the state's antievolution law, bewildered instrument of Science and Faith which have accidentally chosen Dayton as their battleground and in whose wake has come the usual camp-following of freaks, fakes, mountebanks and parasites of publicity...
...Hamilton, Ont., a boardinghouse keeper clumped upstairs, knocked upon the door of an apartment rented by some Hungarians, received no answer. She called in an assistant, who burst down the door. There were the Hungarians -two male, one female-struck down, their skulls crushed by some, blunt instrument. On the body of one of the men a small kitten smilingly sunned itself...
...mountain guide. His country was devastated by Napoleon, then by the insurgent Prussians. His three brothers were killed on a mountain peak by a lightning bolt. Heinrich Steinweg joined the troops of the Duke of Brunswick. He played the bugle. In his knapsack, he carried a jewsharp- an instrument which he found inadequate. He evolved a dulcimer. It was played by striking the strings with little hammers...
...make cabinets, church organs. At his wedding, he played his own wedding march while his fiancee sweated at the bellows, until it was time to climb down from the loft and stand in front of the priest. For a wedding present he gave the girl a piano-a curious instrument with two strings. His son made one with three. In 1839, a piano of his making was exhibited at the state fair in Brunswick...
...Evangelist G. A. Dunn Jr., spoke to a capacity audience at the Central Church of Christ, Wednesday evening, on 'Why Instrumental Music Should Not Be Used in the Worship.' The speaker essayed to show that the Bible is specific in its use of terms, and not general; and, furthermore, because an instrument is proper in the home or heaven does not justify its use in the church today...