Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard music in the department stores. When they walked in Powderhorn Park they heard community singing...
Despite its uninterrupted string of disappointments, however, the U.S.L.T.A. continues its usual system. The American players go to Wimbledon. They blast the rest of the world aside. Then to Germany, perhaps, where the victory is less brilliant. Then weeks of vicious internecine practice in which the beat each other regularly thus destroying all confidence and by the sole and necessary fact of defeat make accord raters out of champions. They live on the Place do la Concorde, world's noisiest square. Unable to sleep, they stroll the streets till midnight. This means getting up about 12 o'clock the next...
...callers his sons' watercolors and drawings from California. Their photograph, in identical bathing suits, hangs high on his office wall. Each morning he walks to the White House and spends his two most important hours of the day there. Later, back at his office, he receives a string of callers, each with an Idea to be put before the President. Worthwhile ideas reach their destination in short order. Many an evening Dr. Moley passes with the President, re-viewing the day's developments, planning for the morrow. Because of his easy access to the White House...
...finally comes, and pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string along with the corrupt kosher poultry "trust"' (two who did not were shot down last year in Brooklyn and Queens), the broiler may have poison or kerosene sprinkled over him by a band of "the Boys," ex-convicts and plug-uglies who police the trust. Even the butcher...
...Coney Island, Joseph Tortora, 33, gorged himself with antipasto and spaghetti, rose from the table, made a sweeping gesture of satisfaction, slipped on a string of spaghetti, upset the table, broke the spaghetti dish, fell into the debris, gashed himself deeply, went to the hospital faint from loss of blood...