Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peak of his feats is requesting somebody from the audience to pick five notes--any five notes on the piano--which he will weave into an original melody, and at further demand, play that melody in the style of Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, or anybody else handy. Try cooking up a melody sometime out of just a few notes with no preconceived notion of how they should fall, and Templeton's things become just a little baffling...
Such is the phenomenal William Lyon Phelps, playboy of the humanities, Dale Carnegie of the critics, "the world's champion endorser." In the '20s William Lyon Phelps had passed his peak with undergraduates. But with U. S. readers he was at the height of his power, carried more weight than any critic before or since. To his praise were due the sensational sales of A. S. M. Hutchinson's saccharine If Winter Comes, of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, many another novel of equal flimsiness...
Reflecting technical factors, President Roosevelt's peace proposal and somewhat better business news, stock prices rallied to gains ranging to 11 points. The recovery reached its peak Saturday with one of the broadest advances in six months...
Outstanding pitcher is Lou Clay who, though not yet at his peak, hold Augusta Military Academy to one hit during vacation. Clay has a good change of pace, coupled with a smooth delivery. He is expected to shows marked improvement when spring sets in. Al Pitchford and Ed Reddy rank below Clay...
...life has a freshness and enthusiasm rare in the records of U. S. public men. He was a galloping, theatrical character-when his first daughter was born, he spread a ragged, wind-whipped flag over Jessie's bed, saying, "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. . . ." Even his calculations were naive and almost innocent, as when he stealthily evaded the War Department when he took a howitzer (for which he had no use) on his third expedition to the West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems in Allan Nevins...