Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which stood in the orchestra. A few of the curious investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin in that its tone is controlled by a fingerboard (rather than by waves of the hand), its volume by a pedal. Carl Zeise, regular Philadelphia 'cellist who operates it, is one of several able Theremin soloists-among...
...practical for a big family!" remarked King Albert of Belgium, gazing upon the luggage rack of a cheap five-passenger U. S. touring car at the Brussels motor show. King Albert, father of Leopold, Charles Theodore, Marie Jose, drives large Minervas, rides motorcycles...
...uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because of a remark the latter has passed about his (Crack's) mother. Best shot: Crack, at the battle front, making sissified King Leopold (Lowell Sherman) drop a handkerchief as a signal for shooting an officer...
Shortly before the War he set his aide, the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, a problem in tactics. The Archduke scratched his Habsburg head and wrote out a solution. Unser Anton perused the paper and observed respectfully...
...Archduke Leopold Ferdinand is at present proprietor of a successful delicatessen store in Vienna where, as Herr Leopold Wölfling, he sells the best of salami and olive...