Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Song of the Volga Boatmen contributes its mite as the tribesmen open the play with the Riding song of the Riffs, a rare gem in basso profundo, with excellent time and almost no tune, which will defy college men all over the country who sing tenor and aspire to bass...
Miss Mary Cherry, a perpetual guest, is Uncle George's prize opponent in argument. She quotes Scripture in her bass voice with venomous effect; nags him for a sot and schemes against him about his daughter's marriage. Parson Bates, a hard-drinking, ruddy giant who mispronounces "sacrilegious," is a third party to their wrangles...
...spasmodic spurts he tells the intimate story of a sensitive boy struggling to become a writer in the face of physical frailty and parental distrust, in mean towns built beside buffalo wallows. Beneath the burden runs a hysterically bitter ground-bass-a dirge for everything Puritan-and snarling discords to the effect that constipation was the pioneers' curse; that their children were rickety, their politics poltroonish, their women spavined, their teeth acid, their minds (including the author's) stunted and deranged, all because they failed to raise cabbages and take lime into their systems...
Among the instruments which were added this fall are; five first violins, four second violins, three flutes, two cellos, two clarinets, two trumpets, two bass viols, one oboe, and one slide trombone...
Mandolins, mandolas, guitars, violins, cellos flutes, clarinets mando-cellos, and bass violas are all needed for the Mandolin Club. Many of these instruments along with piccolos, trumpets, trombones, saxaphones, and drums are used in the Banja Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra is made up of a select group of players to provide the dance music for after the concerts. The Specialty Division offers ample opportunities for first rate vaudeville acts. Clog dancing, juggling, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing, along with xylophone, Hawaiian guitar, ukelele, and accordian playing are desirable...