Word: speared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formed the American Guild of Musical Artists and called it a labor union, humbler musicians had to laugh. But a year later, Baritone Tibbett's dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller U. S. opera companies. Last week, A. G. M. A. bagged a real prize: an agreement recognizing...
Where dinosaurs walked of old, the placid Connecticut now flows. But the Geology boys found one exposure, well known to curiosity seekers. Unsatisfied with the few footprints to be seen, and inspired by the scars where thieves had already managed to escape with several spear, the boys began to hack away at the layers of rock...
Charley Smith is number one sprinter on a team weak in the sprints. Tom Lacey has been working up in the Javelin, hurling the spear 175 feet against Exeter, where he did even better as a student last year...
...Nathaniel Spear Jr. is a short, dark, slick-haired Yaleman of 41, a connoisseur of tapestries and an executive head of a group of furniture stores in New York and Pittsburgh. If Mr. Spear wanted to, he could produce one of the most remarkable jingle-jangles of sound ever heard: he could set all his 885 bells to ringing simultaneously. During years of travel Mr. Spear has collected bells from big to tiny, many of them old and odd, most of them ringable-the largest collection in the world. Last week proud Mr. Spear moved them all into his 34th...
...date when the first bell chimed is lost in Oriental antiquity, but most authorities agree that bells, as distinguished from gongs, cymbals and tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny...