Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average non-musical man, symphonies and operas are bad enough, but chamber music is the limit. The musically-minded are apt to consider chamber music the limit too, but in a different sense. Most of it is written for string quartet (two violins, viola, cello), a combination of instruments supposed to be unequaled for balance and flexibility. Most of the great symphonists have written chamber music as well as symphonies, and sometimes connoisseurs have rated their chamber music higher than the rest. When German Historian Oswald Spengler was casting gloomily about for the No. 1 artistic achievement of Western civilization...
...Crimson team goes into the game with every man on the Varsity "red-shirt" squad in top shape, and Harlow has declared that he will dress several "white-shirts" also. Among the "whites" who stand good chances of going out to tame the Bears are Joe Gardella, third-string bucker, and Gene Levett, second left...
...prisoners" to State's Attorney Courtney's office on the third. Immediately, Kolesiak repudiated his Herex "confession," produced a witness to prove he was in a trolley car accident when the fire broke out. But most newsmen agreed the Herex had added another notable knot to a string of dizzy scoops...
...shifting of Cliff Wilson back to his old post of blocking back, undoubtedly due to the fact that chief Boston is not in top shape to handle the position alone; (2) the loss of Rick Hedblom, second center last year who was slated to become a first string guard this year, due to injuries; (3) the three-cornered fight between Ben Smith, Mike Cohen, and Joe Gardella for the bucking back post, so capably filled last year by Vernon Struck...
...under a separation agreement, Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, Broadway promoter, was sued in Manhattan by his wife, onetime Follies Girl Peggy Fears. Said his sworn counter-complaint: "She tried to compel me to associate with her." Mourned Peggy Fears in Hollywood: "I'm down to my last string of pearls...