Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a canopy of gold and silver the Archbishop-elect marched with a procession to the high altar where a papal bull was read to him, formally announcing his appointment. After Mass, Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into...
...different angles, he can produce ingenious tonal colors, change the volume, manage the most difficult harmonics. The quality of the tone is affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver or some cheaper metal. Flutes have also been made of bamboo, ivory, jade, porcelain, crystalline glass, rubber, papiermâché, wax and human bones...
...always, young Callimahos played a silver flute. But it had two more keys than the ordinary flute, could play half an octave higher. Callimahos played on it everything from Bach to Rimski-Korsakov and Ravel. He included the Manhattan première of a Sonata by Paul Hindemith, now visiting the U. S. for the first time (TIME, April 19). Nobody wondered that Callimahos should have been appointed the youngest teacher at the Mozarteum Summer-Academy in Salzburg. Even in Debussy's The Little Shepherd and Paganini's Caprice he was perfectly at home. But critics smitten with...
...seen. He had started an hour ahead of the rest of the field, stopped after the first ten miles. Winner, when the favorite, John Kelley, weakened two miles from the finish, was a 24-year-old Quebec snowshoe champion named Walter Young, whose prizes were a laurel wreath, a silver cup, a medal...
...CLUE OF THE SILVER CELLAR-Miles Burton-CrimeClub ($2). Ingenious investigation of the disappearance of an unpleasant woman whose body could not be found. Good detective work but rather slow and plodding in parts...