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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortage of pinheads, colored for use by living-room tacticians in deploying armies over maps, was reported by Rand McNally & Co., who also were sold out of all large-scale European maps...
...bent violinist named Carlo Spatari. Spatari brought his fiddle to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, when he was 17. Since he was 25 he has fiddled hard, taught, shot his hard-earned wad devising Sirela, based on the universally understood do, re, mi of the Guidonian musical scale. Today he is still a broke violinist, but his Sirela dictionaries in six languages have reached (at $2 to $5) 100,000 hands in a dozen or more countries, and his language is the subject of resolute or amused experiment by radio stations from Manhattan to Moscow...
Sirela is founded on the mathematical basis that the seven syllables of the scale, plus a Spatari-added Bo, may be arranged into no less than 1,000,000 pronounceable combinations. These combinations are used to express not only single words, but complete thoughts. To these combinations at present there is no rhyme nor clue. They stand for what Carlo Spatari believes they ought to stand for. Originally he had thought of making them up so they could be sung, but that idea proved unmelodious...
...Robson) escapes from the Germans and with her help gets away to The Netherlands, she thinks her duty lies with others like him. With the help of Mme Rappard, the resourceful Countess Mavon (Edna May Oliver) and a bargeman's wife (Zasu Pitts), she organizes a large-scale underground railway whose humanitarian objectives are naturally misunderstood by the equally dutiful German military authorities. She spirits 200 captives out of the war zone before the intelligence service catches up with...
...proper belfries have bells, as well as bats, and some have chimes. Only the finest belfries have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music...