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...three, learned to write musical notes before he could write words. When he was seven the Quebec government sent him to study for a spell in Paris. In Montreal, where he lives with his father, mother and sister, he spends his spare time playing with tin soldiers and following the latest European war news. A bright student, specially interested in poetry and history, he has gotten all his general education from private tutors. Unlike many a composer three times his age, he has already had nearly all his compositions published (by Maurice Senart of Paris...
...Roman courtesans squinted at their reflections in polished silver, bronze. Louis XIV's mistresses had tin-and-mercury-backed mirrors at Versailles Palace...
...American-Hawaiian let out two ships on charter to trie Orient to pick up tin and rubber, strategic materials for which British bottoms are no longer available. At year's end the line declared an extra 50? dividend...
...forget, however, that regardless of what's behind him, be it tin-can or washboard, Jack is considered by most musicians to be one of the greatest and most sincere musicians around. In fact, this reviewer, amongst others, feels that Jack is virtually to the white musicians what Louis Armstrong is to the colored. And the real compliment to his playing genius is that everybody that has ever worked with him perks up his ears when Jack plays--which for pro musicians is something...
...Celina, 15 miles west of Star Point; another at Carthage; a three-story brick business block which Celina still calls "the skyscraper." But to the end of his life he would go off to Florida for the winter with all his clothes in a cardboard valise, a battered tin cup tied to the handle, riding the caboose with the brakemen...