Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merry-Go-Round." The more inventive Nazi guards at Buchenwald, according to the White Paper, have a game they play with prisoners and trees: "If only a slight offense has been committed, the prisoners would be bound to a tree in such a way that they stood facing it and as if embracing it with their hands pinioned together. The straps that bound them would be pulled so tight that they could barely move. Guards would now 'play merry-go-round' with them. That is, they would force them to make their way round and round the tree...
...French horn (musicians call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither...
Composer Rudolph Friml told a Manhattan newshawk of a "conversation" he had had with the late Victor Herbert via the Ouija board: "He says to me, 'Play five notes.'. . . I play. . . . It is Victor Herbert. It is his style exactly. Then Victor Herbert he says to me, 'Quite charming...
Actor Barton then spat right back in Potter's eye: "If you think you're so good and know just how this role of Jeeter should be played, why don't you come up and play it yourself? Try just three minutes of it if you don't want to go to the trouble of learning the entire part...
...title of a play they staged. A gold loving cup was conferred upon Ted Barnick-and the title of Chicago's Handsomest Iceman. So in Chicago last week the National Association of Ice Industries convened to celebrate a four-year-old renaissance...