Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning there arrived inopportunely at Vienna famed U. S. negroid danseuse Josephine Baker-in figure like a long string bean, in color a prepossessing tawny chocolate, and in motion either sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours...
...dollars they appraised it, then found a pile of unpublished manuscripts and added two dollars more. But that was in 1828. Since then the world has added to the list-some 600 songs, and masses, cantatas, motets, hymns, operas and fragments of operas, piano sonatas, impromptus, dances and marches, string quartets, the bulk of ten symphonies...
...songs that Schubert is measured today, by his Erlkonig that he wrote when he was eighteen, by Who is Sylvia?, Litaney, Tod und das Madchen and the Standchen, by the songs that crept in to become the life of his last string quartets, his quintet, the C Major and the great Unfinished Symphony. In Vienna he was first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist...
Many Americans all right. Other manys narrow like shoe string, because don't can see other people standpoint...
Team B is now in fourth place in the standing of class B teams in the tournament. The Freshman team is occupying a similar place in the standing of Class C teams. The Freshman players, with the exception of their first contest, have a string of unbroken victories to their credit...