Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back to Europe with them from the East...
...from the Indians. The Indians believed it. Had not their ancestors long ago seen it with their own eyes and learned from it to do their own tribal dances? But hard-headed Saskatchewanians knew better. Up for re-election last month was Saskatchewan's Premier James Thomas Milton Anderson. Few days before election he returned to Regina, the capital, from a campaign swing through the sparsely settled northern districts of his province. Then he told his story. Motoring one day through a lonely stretch of prairie, he had stopped by the roadside, seen with his own eyes the tribal...
...Dean Milton Charles Winternitz of Yale's Medical School was as happy as any preceptor could be last week. One of his proteges, Luther George Simjian, had just announced perfection of a device which: 1) produces colored x-ray images of internal organs, 2) visualizes highly transparent organs, 3) utilizes harmless, weak x-ray beams. 4) allows the colored images to "be sent by wire to any place the examining doctor...
...Died. Milton C. Work. 69. whist and bridge authority, founder with Sidney Lenz of the "official" system of contract bridge bidding; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
Head man of the candy industry does not consider himself a candy man at all. But over 60% of Milton Snavely Hershey's business is milk chocolate bars, though he has not advertised his products since 1909. In Hershey. Pa., the air is sweet for miles around, most of the profits (1933: $4,246,000) go to the Hershey Industrial School, and 76-year-old Mr. Hershey lives alone in two rooms at the country club. Through Depression he has quietly fattened his bars...