Word: string
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there was "the world's greatest mandolinist," Giuseppe Pettine of Providence, R. I., of whom the official Guild Reporter said in advance of his platform appearance...
...Samuel has the string of friendships in potent "Naval families" necessary to a First Lord, and having once been Secretary of State for Air he can be trusted to put the Admiralty's planes on a par with the world's best. This week No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale partly because Sir Samuel has been intending to build a house better suited to display his treasures, but chiefly because as First Lord he will reside with Lady Maud at Admiralty House, Whitehall in the sumptuous residence which the aristocratic British Navy provides for its chief...
...Chiefs named Tatagu who proved to be eminently civilized. Long suspecting that there was nothing in the devil-fear to which the islanders had been addicted, Tatagu led a fishing expedition to sea one day, pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi fish. Returning home in triumph, the Chief of Chiefs learned that a son had been born to him. In accordance...
...Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems and owner of what, with the possible exception of the Whitney stables, is the finest string of race horses in the world, promptly followed it with an understatement: "My ambition was to win the Derby thrice and I have done it in 13 short years." The Aga Khan has been trying to win the Derby since 1923 but he has won it thrice in seven starts...
...FULNESS of TIME-Gertrude Capen Whitney - Bruce Humphries ($2.50). Adventures of a great-souled Georgia spinster among a group of Pennsylvania Quakers caught in the toils of a mystical mystery. A string of crystal beads and a seeress play important, if incomprehensible, parts in this fictionized revelation of Truth...