Word: mandolin
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Most performers are on the street to earn their living by collecting contributions. Despite working as a lifeguard three times a week at the Central Square YMCA, Kevin McNamara makes most of his money by playing his guitar, harmonica, and mandolin, shaking his maracas, and stomping on his tambourine in front of hundreds of delighted strangers. How well does he do? "It's very therapeutic," McNamara says. "We save a lot on shrinks...
Marcel, the artist, tells Rodolfo, "I'm freezing my nuts off"). By the time Mimi and Rodolfo have fallen into their first-act clinch, as a mandolin plucks away in the twelve-piece theater band, sentimentalists are dabbing at their eyes...
...Here lay the quarters for the servants. . . Back in one corner, a melancholy boy from the south strummed a broken mandolin found in one of the garrets, weaving the futile passions of his country ballads. It was in these parts, too, that the mushrooms were grown, pale and fat as frog bellies, whose caretaker, after a short time shut up underground, turned as cold, as silent, as blind as those delicious fungi the masters were so fond of. One had only to venture a short distance, lamp in hand, beyond where last year's straw ticks lay rotting...
...side, Wendy Smith plays a mandolin with a country band called Blue Velvet. His friend Donald Clay, a Ford worker in Ypsilanti, Mich., also has a band, North Country Grass. "We was raised up together," says Wendy. "There was only one well on Ranger Ridge, and his daddy had it, and we carried water from...
...squads, and not listening to speeches. One of his reading period papers featured this appeal: "It seems a pity that more men do not realize the pleasures and benefits to be had from membership in one of the various musical organizations in the University. The Freshman Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs, which practice through the winter and give three or four concerts shortly after the spring recess, offer an opportunity not only to make new acquaintances...but also to gain valuable lessons in singing or instrumental playing." And when the Union, then run as a club reported that its enrollment...