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...Bach. Some went to hear him for the first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British Isles as cricket matches, a musician with a keen enough sense of humor to tell on himself of the moist night in South Africa when he slipped off his stool and under the piano. They saw him come out on the stage, a little man, one-third fore head and nearly two-thirds shirt front; saw him bow, start to play. A group of Preludes and Fugues, the Partia in C minor...
...sheets in the U. S. He would have edited a sheet read religiously by the tightlipped, tightmouthed New England bourgeoisie, by politicians, statesmen, presidents. He would have lifted from his presses each evening the first wet copy of a lankcolumned, pinheadlined journal, which, even in the moment of its moist birth seemed austere enough to belong in the files of a Boston library; where, when he actually became editor, 30-year-old copies reposed as valuable records...
...Pittsburgh, celluloid-visored Joseph Castro fell asleep in somebody's office. Inspired by his snoring, a gum-chewing office joker removed a wad of moist substance from under his tongue. "Lookit," he said, "what do you say we play a joke?" Stealthy as a murderer he approached Joseph Castro, stuck a little tee of gum on the end of Mr. Castro's nose. When spectators giggled, the joker still stealthy as a murderer, became inspired to touch a match to the little tee he had built. Dreaming of a sunny beach, Joseph gave his nose a little wriggle, opened...
...down among men to minister to their wants as a slavey but never to be wanted for herself. Tall, strong, beautifully made, fine-skinned, middleaged, immaculate, actual Almas are "Cook" or "Nurse" in thousands of U. S. households. They go to the Scandinavian Church religiously. Their eyes grow moist easily over members of "the family...
...warm and tender clasped him round the back of his neck; melted with desire and awe, he laid his hands upon the flesh of her upper arms., where the fine-grained skin over the bicepts came to his sense so heavenly cool; and upon his lips he felt the moist clinging of her kiss...