Word: pluckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern Appalachian songs which she learned at singing gatherings in North Carolina, she sings Old English, Irish and Scottish ballads which Susie digs out of the public-library music room. She comes from a ballad-singing family (papa is acting overseas with a camp show), and Susie learned to pluck her harp and zither at home. Her mother is an executive of the American Theater Wing...
Twice a week during the two-month session, the young women come to "The Temple of the Harp," Salzedo's pastel-hued, ultra-modernized house, for instruction either from the maestro or from his 32 -year-old American wife. The rest of the time the busy fingers pluck on their Berlioz, Debussy, Saint-Saens lessons-or on the compositions of Salzedo himself. Says the maestro: "Only males can compose. Women, including women harpists, are made to compose babies...
...Hindu Communist pundit, who is opposing Leopold S. Amery, Secretary of State for India, in Britain's general election, came felicitations from an eminent Indian wellwisher. Newly released after three years in jail, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu nationalist, paused briefly in Bombay to wire Dutt luck on his pluck. Dutt's chances of election: virtually...
Author Hutchinson eases the Orchilly family out of their dilemmas with the help of self-sacrifice and a spate of deaths and coincidences. But even readers who respect his serious intent are likely to find Interim disappointing. It is not only cheapened by arty metaphors ("I ceased to pluck at the sleeve of time") and an ornate vocabulary (including "presby-opic," "subfusc," "lincrusta," "curtilage"), but also lacks the dramatic quality of Author Hutchinson's earlier novels (The Unf or gotten Prisoner-TIME, Feb. 26, 1934; Shining Scabbard-TIME, Dec. 28, 1936). Like The Keys of the Kingdom, Interim...
...Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary royal satins, arrives in court prepared to pluck the richest plums in Araby...