Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist he was playing in Rio de Janeiro when one night the regular conductor...
...Frank is proposing to his charming protege, bullets fly through the windows. Calmly he ships Joan to Miami so that he may dispose of his enemies without endangering her life. An exclusive hotel harbors Joan until she meets an insipid crooner who confesses he is a coward. If a splinter pierces the delicate epithelium on his finger, or if the sun darkens his pure white skin, he has conniptions. Emasculated as he appears on the surface, he faces death with remarkable nonchalance; he is there in the pinch. Maybe this characterization conveys something mystical and beautiful...
...until recently when he got a job with a transfer company, he is a shy, sandy-haired, well-built fellow with a missing tooth. Now 24, he has been pitching half his life, throws a soft lead shoe with 1¼ turns, takes time out during matches to remove splinters from the shoes (lead shoes often splinter) with a file he always carries in his pocket...
...Splinter Parties...
...Splinter Parties...