Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even the old plea, "I've worn that, it's almost worn out,'' could keep the inspectors' list of their attempted smugglings from including woolen coats and suits worth $700 abroad; silk pajamas, negligees, lingerie worth $1,300; bed linen, mezzotints, and a triple string of Tecla pearls with a diamond clasp...
...died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When he died, at 31, he left some 600 songs, 6 masses, 2 sacred cantatas, 24 piano sonatas, 20 string quartets, 18 dramatic works, 10 symphonies and personal effects valued at $10. Last week, under the leadership of the Columbia Phonograph Co., Europe and the U.S. celebrated the Centennial of his death...
Theoretically, the newspaperman belongs to a "fourth estate," proud in its antecedents, jealous for its membership, mighty in affairs. Actually he binds his toga with shoelace and a piece of string, and now and then he must take to his heels with some irate mere first-or second-estater grabbing at the frayed vestment...
...opening of the basketball season two weeks ago the squad has been gradually increasing. Coach E. A. Wachter has been featuring passing, ball handling, and footwork. All the practice has been with teams divided as evenly as possible, and no attempt has been made to form a first string lineup...
...latch string obligato at the organ recital yesterday afternoon has left many persons with a distinct distaste for Harvard concerts manners. Five o'clock in the afternoon is late enough so that most of the audience should not be prevented by academic activities from prompt arrival. Other occupations may actually detain a few but the large majority at these recitals owe a discourteous and noisy tardiness to nothing more serious than pre-prandial intertia...