Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harmonics, he rebelled. Fiedler Sr., repentant, taught him the violin from that June into the following Fall. Then, out of 53 competitors he was accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp, was discharged for flat feet. He has since taught, played in concerts, organized the first U. S. sinfonietta (little symphony...
...other hand, must submit to indecent manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...
...flame of its furnace, and the power of the steel-mill is the heat of that flame. Cold and solid is steel to the layman. Hot and liquid it is to the steelworker, who is essentially one of dozens of cooks attending a titan's kettle of boiling muck. To him, it seems, the fiery mess is continually boiling over from the kettle's snouty spout. First, a trickle of fat sparks. Then the trickle turns to a stream, the stream reaches the circumference of a man's body -a stream of molten steel with a long...
...strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from his car. ¶At Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss...
...Selling $53,000,000 worth of State bonds to transform Mississippi muck into motor roads...