Word: quill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music department possesses a fine Dolmetsch Harpsichord. Of these people, a very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...
...Chicago Widow Ella M, Rainey realized $10,000 from the auction of the library of her late husband, Speaker of the House Henry Thomas Rainey. The quill pen with which Woodrow Wilson signed the U. S. Declaration of War against Germany brought...
Last week New Jersey's Commissioner of Education Charles H. Elliott upheld the School Board, rejected Principal Matteson's explanation that he had kept Carolyn McDavit after class to ask her to draw for the Scout magazine he edited so that it might win a Golden Quill merit badge...
...Century (Notker Balbulus) to the 18th (Gretry), but the busiest person at a concert given last week in Deep River, Conn. was an earnest lady in a brown evening dress named Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black wind instrument called a recorder. Lotta Van Buren had so performed...
Across the top of Grit's front page is the design which has been there since its first year, a rococo drawing of two pudgy cherubs having a tug-of-war with a long banner lettered GRIT. Each cherub has a quill pen behind his ear. Around the shoulders of one is slung a pastepot. The other carries a pair of shears. Strewn about the background are stacks of books, a globe, a telescope on a tripod, a gear wheel and an anvil (presumably symbolizing business & industry...