Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every age has had its characteristic instruments: in the 17th century it was the voice, in the 18th the clavier and pipe organ, in the igth the piano and the symphony orchestra. The 20th century instrument is the record machine-a phonograph or a tape recorder...
...orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...
Stop and think things over, and change. Take up a pipe and drop the stuffy greys and reps. For a shocker give the soft shirt a chance--pants and tie match. Keep the coat and shoes conventional, but spice them with a carnation in the buttonhole and striped laces. No more crew cuts, no more sneakers...
...other reported injury was a knee burn, caused by heat from the exhaust pipe of one of the police motorcycles...
Clifford L. Lord is a handsome, pipe-smoking historian from Amherst with the restless energy of a traveling salesman. In the competitive shopping centers of scholarship, he peddles his wares with remarkable success...