Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote an awed reviewer in the New York Times, with just a tongue-tip in cheek: "We should not be surprised to hear . . . that the intellectuals had discovered Mr. Capp's opera, and that words like dichotomy, plangent and ambivalent were being thrown at him, wrapped in pages from Kafka and Dostoevski . . . The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a cultural event of enormous significance...
Beethoven with Guitar Strings. In one camp, Goldberg assembled 14 violinists and a flutist, a piano with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
Last month they got their first tip. It came from a high-school teacher who had spent two frightening weeks in a Boston mansion--a house that still stands on a busy Back Bay street, boarded-up and lonely...
Next morning, in a slatch in the storm, surf watchers on the tip of Cape Cod saw the Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful spew of trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until...
...Tip by Television. After winning four of the first six races at Bowie one day last week, Picou was interviewed by television direct from the track. The interviewer asked him if he thought he was having a pretty good day. Said Picou evenly: "Yes, but I'm not finished yet. I'll win the eighth race too." On the strength of this televised tip (probably the first in racing history) straight from the jockey's mouth, bookies were swamped with bets on Waterclock, the horse Picou was riding. Waterclock won by six lengths...