Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Court came many New Englanders. Came Charles Sumner Bird, former Progressive leader, independent in Massachusetts politics, with his son-in-law one-time (1911-13) Governor Robert P. Bass of New Hampshire. Came U. S. Marshal W. J. Kevill. Came "four or five Massachusetts friends of the President." For luncheon came four members of the staff of the Boston Globe...
...Almeda Pennington of Houston, Tex., who slipped up on "skittish." "Scittish," Almeda spelled it. Mary Coddens, the little Belgian girl from South Bend, Ind., was next. She has spoken English only five years, but never faltered until she mixed "cosmos," the universe with "cosmas," a flower. Loren Mackey, the bass-voiced Oklahoma boy, followed Mary out. "Propeller...
Half Time by Bohuslav Martinu seems to mirror in sound the delirium of a football game-bass-drum drop-kicks cannonading, harmonies lining stiffly against each other, breaking, at a signal, into isolated, screaming units. Critics, adopting this theory, compared it favorably to Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...
...Waldfec, by Vitĕzslav Novak, embodies the old German folk story of Toman who, betrayed by his beloved, cannot resist the decoy of the sidelong smiling fairy whose kiss is death. He rides to his bride in a ballad for strings with a background of contra bass. Learning of her treachery, his laughter whirls in the brasses; exhaustion succeeds; the love cry faints into the sliding enchantments of Venus Yertocordia, to culminate at length in a triumphant orgy of brutal discords. "The finale," said one critic, "is like awakening from a nightmare...
...Swampscott, Mass., is expecting a lively summer once the President arrives there late in June: for the Mayflower will anchor at Marblehead, the Italian Ambassador will be situated at Beverly Farms, the German Ambassador at Magnolia, the Siamese legation at Bass Rocks and members of the British Embassy (Sir Esmé Howard will be abroad) at Manchester...