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Krock sent Crimson linguists scrounging through foreign dictionaries to translate his wire, but when it was finally deciphered it was found that he too spurned the Crime's offer. "As we used to remind one another in Nassau Hall," Knock wrote. "Ledigheid is honkers moodier en van dieted voile brooder." (Idleness is hunger's mother, and of thieves it is full brother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Top Gotham Writers Spurn Crime Mercy Offer | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

...pianist; Columbia, 12 sides); Pour le Piano Suite and Danse (Gaby Casadesus, pianist; Vox, 4 sides); Milhaud: Le Bal Martiniquais (Robert and Gaby Casadesus, duo-pianists; Columbia, 2 sides). Husband & wife take turns working over the iridescent music of a fellow Frenchman. Robert's album is deeper and moodier; Gaby plays more lightly-turned caprices. Their joint record is light, witty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...citizens know just what the viola is. It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello. In appearance it is nothing more than a large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melancholy Viola | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

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