Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henri Rochette whipped out a razor sharp knife. Right in the middle of the court room he slashed his throat from ear to ear. Carefully tucked inside Henri Rochette's hat was a note...
...dance. But the evening's high point was the kitchen symphony (Messrs. Metzenger. Veseley, Sayers and Kopp) for which the four strange shoppers-the orchestra's percussion players-dressed up like chefs, stood between a big stove and a crockery-laden table and accurately tapped out note for note the Allegretto from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Oldtimers remembered that Theodore Thomas, father of Chicago's music, put on the same act 29 years ago. That the Orchestra will live to give it again was assured by the donations of last week's guests...
...past four years, depletion of working capital, curtailed sales. And they made much of the fact that 70% of Reo's cash had been tied up in a closed Michigan bank of which old Mr. Olds was chairman. Hugh R. Baker of American Bank Note, a large Reo stockholder, was so alarmed by the charges that he called on Mr. Diamond's attorneys. "A more evasive set of men I have never contacted," Stockholder Baker reported...
...fond of music and wishes to learn something about its technical side, Music 4 supplies the answer. Since men who are concentrating in music are not required to take this course, Professor Ballantine has not been restricted by department requirements. One hears representative music from almost every composer of note from Bach to Stravinsky. Analysis of the forms and methods of composition comprise most of the material for study...
...door, he found one entire pane shattered to bits, and on the bed at the opposite side of the room, the missile in question. It was an old revolver, having a large antique value, if good for no other purpose. Stuck between the hammer and the chamber was this note: "Death tonight at the fatal hour of twelve. Your friend, the Phantom...