Word: screed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gushing. A lady once rushed up to him, said: "You play just like Paganini." Menuhin asked her if she had ever heard Paganini. He sees few of his press notices. They are being kept for him until he is 20. Yet once when he happened upon a particularly rhapsodic screed his comment was: "But I have no good spiccato. I have no staccato. I play my double-stops out of tune, my vibrato is bad and my trills terrible...
...Publisher Ochs was delighted to brighten with Nosko's screed the dull squabbles or the maudlin applause of his other correspondents, he was even more delighted to observe that a controversy had been started which concerned not Josef Nosko's mongrel, Buster, but the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the process of the controversy, as detailed in the news columns of the Times, the A. S. P. C. A. was accused of malpractices more disreputable than the theft of Nosko's Buster...