Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first concert of the season for string orchestra only will be held at the Cantabrigia Club on Friday, November 20. The next will be a joint concert with the Bradford Glee Club at Bradford on Tuesday. February 23, followed the next week by one given in the Boston Public Library on Sunday, February 28. There will also be two concerts in the spring in Paine Hall, one of which will be for string orchestra alone and the other for the full orchestra...
Light workouts were the order of the day for teams A and B in yesterday afternoon's practice sessions as Coach Casey drilled his first string athletes in the fundamentals of blocking and kicking. Wood called signals to Mays, Dean and White as the A and B backfields worked on aerial attack and pass defense...
...large-headed little gnome whose name is Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton) stood in Dorchester last week with a string in his hand. He gave the string a tug. some drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair sold his entire string of 25 racehorses for the disappointing price of $81,300. He still retains his crack breeding farm at Jobstown. N. J., where lives Zev, winner of the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Reason for the Sinclair sale: Last month Saratoga race stewards looked askance when the Sinclair entry in the Burnt Hill handicap was discovered to be poisoned. They declared Sinclair's trainer responsible, but not culpable, for the horse's condition, barred the Sinclair stable from entering horses in races overnight...
Director von Sternberg, neither creator nor translator, had the insoluble problem of duplicating a masterpiece in a medium which it was not meant to fit. The string of hasty sequences with which the picture replaces the first volume of the novel fails to make Clyde Griffiths excitingly alive, "unless the spectator remembers the novel well enough to fill in the gaps. Titles, gloomily printed on a background of waves, interrupt the action more than they elucidate it. Phillips Holmes plays Clyde Griffiths in perfunctory fashion. He experiences every human emotion without varying his expression except by a toothy smile...