Crossword-Solution: HUMORESQUE 10 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 24

There is a different-looking, well-linened gentleman thrusts his head into the old book store and inquires, "Have you a copy of 'The Investors' Guide'?" ILL-HUMORESQUE The beggar in the street, sitting on the pavement against the building with his pleading face raised and his arm outstretched--I don't like him.

And recently I have transcribed some fine Russian things--Gretchaninoff's _Chant d'Automne_, Karagitscheff's _Exaltation_, Tschaikovsky's _Humoresque_, Balakirew's _Chant du Pechêur_, and Poldini's little _Poupée valsante_, which Maud Powell plays so delightfully on all her programs." VII JASCHA HEIFETZ THE DANGER OF PRACTICING TOO MUCH.

Transcriptions are wrong, theoretically; yet some songs, like Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Song of India' and some piano pieces, like the Dvořák _Humoresque_, are so obviously effective on the violin that a transcription justifies itself.

She went to the piano and rippled off a brilliant waltz or two, just to show him she could do it, played Humoresque, and a few little catchy melodies that were in the popular ear just then, and then, whirling on the gilded stool, she lifted her big eyes to him: "I don't like it in here," she said, with a little shiver, as a child might do; "let's go into the library by the fire.

And there is a clear memory of the assistant cook, the college boy who was taking his vacation in the wilds, whistling the Dvo[vr]ák "Humoresque" as he dried the dishes on a piece of clean sacking.