Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music Clubs prize for a string quartet. In 1953, Ramiro switched to the University of Southern California, the next semester won a tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
...court's noon recess, insisted Tommy, is a modest $2,054,922.23. To show the straits he is in, Manville lugged in a suitcase full of his canceled checks (item: $2,400 for a year's window cleaning at his Westchester County mansion). Asked about a string of checks he wrote to buy arch supports, Manville, ever the butt of his own gags, explained: "I got fallen arches carrying my first bride over the thresh-old." Meanwhile, Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia...
...week, are pleading for food, housing and jobs. Inexperience-his own and his people's-make leaders hard to find, ideas scarce, and decisions difficult to make. ("This government," said one of the U.S. officials anxiously trying to help, "is stuck together by Scotch tape, bits of string and putty.") The French, striving to maintain by fair means and by sly means a remnant of influence and profit in the land they have exploited for seven decades, obstruct him with the wily rearguard maneuvers of colonialism...
...appointed High Commissioner to the Philippines by F.D.R., returned to Washington in 1939 and served as Federal Security Administrator (1939-45) and War Manpower Commissioner (1942-45). His White House chances reached their high in the 1940 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when, backed by a nationwide string of McNutt-for-President clubs, he was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination, but loyally withdrew after Roosevelt insisted on Henry Agard Wallace as a running mate...
...reply: "I do not explain them. There seems to me to be no explanation." The same answer might apply to questions about the works of veteran Novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett. What explanation is there for an author who has produced, at almost regular two-year intervals, a string of novels that have all much the same title (e.g., Pastors & Masters; Elders & Betters; Brothers & Sisters'), are about much the same people living in much the same house at much the same period (turn of the century) and conceal in the same cupboards just the same skeletons...