Word: mandolin
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Draja Mihailovich, 47, is a stocky, jovial father of five who with equal spirit plays the mandolin and fights. Born in Ivanjica, Serbia, in the territory he now holds, he was raised, after the early death of his parents, by an uncle who was a Serb colonel. Draja went to the Serbian Military Academy at 15, was wounded fighting the Turks in 1913 and the Austrians...
...that time, the Glee Club held all its meetings jointly with the famous old Banjo and Mandolin Club, and sang popular and romantic songs. Professor Davidson encouraged the singing of classical music, a revolutionary departure for a college glee club...
...result of an offer to sing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Club found it necessary to split with the Banjo and Mandolin in 1919. This schism caused a great deal of trouble in the College...
...rare, melodious twang was heard this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah-the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic mandolin. Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer. Richard Dyer-Bennet, 28-year-old minstrel, is probably the only U.S. radio entertainer listed in Burke's Peerage...
...bone; its bent head, the foot; its tuning pegs, the toes; its strings, the dried veins fluttering from the bones. The lute was the great instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance until the viols drowned it out. In shape, its only popular successor is the lowly mandolin; but in sound the guitar comes closer...