Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fritz Reiner, world-famous conductor of the Pittsburgh symphony, stated a short time ago that he was offering the post of solo trumpet to Manny Klein, now playing with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra, because he felt Klein's vibrato "much preferable to the stiff and dead tone used, as a rule by symphony...
...observer of his life and works can fail to note that James Joyce is a typical Irishman. Born in Dublin, he remains as Irish in Paris or Trieste as he was in the city of his birth. His friends believe that nothing short of a European war could drive him back to the "little brown bog" and the haunting Liffey...
...Crimson Freshmen were on the short and of a 9 to 0 score in a match with a team composed of Harvard graduates on the Jarvis Courts on Saturday afternoon. Russ Ellis, at number one for the Yardlings, was the only man who was able to take a set from his adversary...
Dartmouth's Varsity baseball team came through with three booming hits off Tom Bealey in the pinches at Hanover Saturday afternoon, while the Crimson left runner after runner stranded on the sacks thus shoving Floyd Stahl's nine into second place in the E. I. L. on the short end of a 5 to 3 count...
...After a short interval the blonde spoke up from the rear, "Oh, thank you! I didn't want you to think we're so ignorant we didn't, know what we were looking at." Thereupon the limousine disappeared down Massachusetts Avenue, leaving Grout entirely bewildered...