Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the first labors of the new year. For wise Congressmen the long Easter recess is also a time for clearing the head of Washington's political vapors and finding out what is in the minds of the folks back home. In 1958 the Easter recess served a key purpose: in Washington, the temptation to fight recession with a spending spree had been almost overwhelming. But when the Congressmen got home at Easter, they discovered to their general astonishment that there was little sentiment for wild pump-priming. That discovery shaped much of the course of the 85th Congress...
...crypt beneath the confession altar, says Dr. Guarducci. "Everyone naturally expected to find Peter's name spelled out and was disappointed not to find it. But it is there in monogram form, with the E placed at the foot of the P to make it look like a key." The symbol she described looks something like this...
...Hermione Gingold growls, minces and struts through her endless matrimonial campaigns. She would be fiercely funny if First Impressions were a bedroom farce, and not a genteel domestic satire. As it is, Comedienne Gingold breaks up the house, and shatters the tenuous Jane Austen mood. The musical's key failure is that of scoring one of literature's string quartets for the theatrical equivalent of two brass bands...
...concert, Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum provided its new Dutch-built Flentrop tracker organ, the only one in the U.S. designed for concert purposes. Because the tracker organ operates by direct key-to-valve action, it avoids the breathy sonorities of electrically controlled organs, has an articulate, percussive quality well suited to the rapid trills and runs of 18th century organ style. With Biggs playing the Flentrop and Pinkham * operating a smaller 18th century organ moved in especially for the occasion, the concert unfolded as a gaily trip-hammered dialogue in which one instrument occasionally laid down...
...Some key Keys warnings...