Word: samplers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composer Dett has so far been known principally for his choral works and arrangements of Negro spirituals. But last fortnight he joined the symphonic company of Composers Still and Dawson, when his sombre, ably orchestrated composition American Sampler was broadcast over the Columbia network by Conductor Howard Barlow. Last week, at the annual six-day Music Festival at Worcester, Mass., Composer Dett made musical news again. For the festival's opening program Conductor Albert Stoessel chose Dett's massive, spiritual-born oratorio The Ordering of Moses. Previously performed in Cincinnati and Manhattan, this tempestuous choral and orchestral work...
...suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated Charley Yates the first day; 27-year-old Dick Chapman, who had competed in five previous U. S. Amateurs but had never before reached the first round of match play; and 23-year-old Willie Turnesa, amateur baby brother...
...about to send down the ways a $200,000, seagoing sampler of his seagoing notions. Light (70 tons), fast (26 knots), she was powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...
...bite at it. As in a newspaper fairy tale, the unanimous choice of the judges was No Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find in its stilted, sampler-like pattern an old-fashioned charm. Allison was many years younger than Hamish, her stalwart, fiery-souled preacher-husband. It had never occurred to her to doubt that she loved him: she had several children to prove it, and in Scotland in those times (early 19th Century) speculation about "love...
...their mouths full, then spewed into large brass cuspidors. No hostess was present to pour tea from the hundred assembled samples, nor was there any host except the U. S. Government. The nearest to such a functionary was, however, John Joseph McNamara, Chairman of the Board and a tea sampler for 14 years. Sitting first, he gathered other tasters around him in this order: Robert A. Lewis, Boston; Charles F. Hutchinson, Manhattan; A. P. Irwin, Philadelphia; Edward Bransten, San Francisco; Arthur T. Hellyer, Chicago; J. J. Shaw, Seattle...