Word: violine
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Cement Mixer, Burt Lancaster doing acrobatics, Jayne Mansfield playing the violin, Lauren Bacall reading Casey at the Bat, and James Cagney and Jack Lemmon dancing...
...Saens is nothing if not French. "The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music," he once declared. Most of his music, including Sonata No. 1 For Piano ' and Violin, is more form than substance. Still, Jascha Heifetz plays it well, and includes satisfying little pieces by four other composers (Sibelius, Wieniawski, Rachmaninoff and Falla) on side...
Menace though it may be, the black widow spider is something of a has-been. For potency of venom, a little-known spider called the brown recluse is now No. 1. Also called the fiddler be cause of a violin-shaped mark on its head, this species is spreading across the Central and Southern states...
...matters often called the lord from his hearth. Thus it happened one day, while he was flying in a plane over distant lands, that he chanced to gaze on a well-turned knee, and confessed himself enchanted. The lord looked further, and saw a dark-haired damsel with a violin in her lap. Much smitten by the woman, who was proficient enough to play in the Sydney Symphony and pretty enough to model, the lord determined to bide his time but to renew the acquaintance once they were back in Merrie England...
Chapter II. So it came to pass that the damsel with the violin was engaged by the lord to help manage his affairs. As a reward, he often took "Bambi," as he fondly called her, to concerts, sitting with her in the stalls while Marion pined in the box. In private, the lord's nights with Bambi grew bolder, and the day eventually came when she told him that she was bearing his child...