Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as 'touch' in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: 'Art is a question of personality...
...Willis Ballinger is a perfect example of the ex-teacher turned left-wing New Dealer. He wears a Phi Beta Kappa key, drinks bourbon whiskey, smokes a big curved pipe, is so proud of his speaking ability that he has framed programs of his debates on the walls of his bachelor apartment. FTC took him on two years ago when his ideas proved too acid...
...worth-while because it pays $20 a week show how a liberal education can miss fire. These seniors who want to measure the worth of a job, or of a career by the cash return have forgotten King Midas who proved centuries ago that wealth is no key to happiness. . . --Brown Daily Herald...
...Berry (tenor sax) and Roy Eldridge (trumpet). Only trouble with the record is that "Stardust," on the other side, has some of the worst recording this reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room." The rest is not so good. Casa Loma turns loose a rather weird sense of humor, recording "The Old Oaken Bucket" under the title of "Hoboken Bucket" ... Funny thing that Benny Goodman's best records...
...managing to survive the close call, but now long it can stave off the fatal day is uncertain. It is time for the intelligentsia to realize its responsibilities. Civilization must be left to its own devices no longer. It is up to Phi Beta Kappa men to recognize their Key as the wise man's burden, which is altogether too ponderous to dangle from a mere watchchain, and altogether too potent to have no other...