Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday Symphony concerts of this week have an engrossing sound. Mozart's Symphony in A major, (Kochel no. 201), is the first number. Composed in 1774 when Mozart was 18 years old, it represents an important stage in the composer's development of the symphonic form. Despite the comparatively tender age at which it was written, the work can hardly be classed as an early one for Mozart wrote his first symphony when eight years old. This will be followed by "Les Offrandes Oubliees" by Olivier Messiaen, a young French composer and one of four in a new Parisian group...
...reduced circumstances, by whom he has a 12-year-old daughter Audrey. In 1926 he married the present Mrs. Simpson. She was Wallis ("Wally") Warfield of Baltimore and in 1916 gave her age as 22 when she married Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., now commander of the U. S. Aircraft Tender Wright, from whom she was divorced in 1925. Thus the King and Mrs. Simpson are the same age, 42, and Mr. Simpson at 39 is ripe to receive at His Majesty's hands knighthood, a baronetcy, a peerage or one of the historic Court offices...
...bank were arrayed Leyden jars. Using the river for a conductor. Franklin electrically fired a pan of brandy. To his guests' amazement, a turkey was then electrocuted, cooked on an electrically turned spit over an electrically-lighted fire. After further experiments Franklin declared that electrocuted fowl "eats uncommonly tender...
When the flame reaches the leather and the tender foot beneath it, the quiet ends...
...Trenton, N. J. last January one Joe Duggan, 14-year-old furnace tender, had the effrontery to call Jean Harlow in Hollywood on a telephone belonging to his employer, Charles Gerofsky. He spoke to her secretary, left a message which later caused Miss Harlow to call surprised Mr. Gerofsky. Last week the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. arrived at a satisfactory settlement of its suit to make disgusted Mr. Gerofsky pay $20.35 for the long-distance call. Said Furnace Boy Duggan: "Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Gerofsky. It was just an idea I had and I guess it wasn...