Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dealer, locked in an upper room turning out copies of English and Dutch masterpieces which his father sometimes foisted off as originals. But while still a fuzzless youth, Morland started drinking. To keep himself supplied with gin, young Morland secretly painted sexy love scenes, lowered them on a string to a confederate to be sold for gin money. Before his apprenticeship ended, Morland turned down a handsome offer from the painter Romney, set off on a roistering, rakehell career that sent him to his grave...
...freshmen had an unbroken string of 121 wins, dating back to a defeat at the hands of the Army plebes in 1944. Lawrenceville has been undefeated in prep school competition for ten years...
...dark suits slipped out, 9-mm. German-made Schmeisser burp-guns cradled in their arms, and crawled behind a hedge that ran only 20 feet from where the President sat. At 7:20 a string of firecrackers exploded somewhere in the neighborhood. "They are celebrating a birthday over there," a member of the Remón party remarked. Two minutes later bursts of machine-gun fire sprayed the box. Two men died instantly; Remón's heavy frame slumped to the floor, blood darkening his pleated white sport shirt. "That was no firecracker," he gasped...
...change it "by iron and manacles." The attempt failed. Sir George also was cross when his daughter showed a distaste for lawn tennis, made her practice the cello, although she liked the piano. "I used to practice with tears pouring down my cheeks because the ¶string hurt my little finger so frightfully, and also because I was making such a horrible noise...
Kirchner: String Quartet No. 1 (American Art Quartet; Columbia). A sample of the best modern style by a young composer who is going places...