Word: blende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show is nothing more than a musical evening a performance by some of the best negro artists in the country. It is in truth a rhapsody of song in which the orchestra, the choir, and the few dancers that there are blend together to produce an altogether pleasing effect. Both Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "St. James Infirmary" are revived in a new and vivid manner. In the first mentioned number, the finale to the first part of the program, the climax of the evening is reached, especially in the parts where Annanias Berry (the most elongated...
...outstanding shortcoming of radio today in my opinion is that it presents a flat picture, without much perspective, and certainly with little or no depth. . . . In broadcasting we have neither sight nor memory to suggest where sounds originate, and it must be obvious that the blend of, say, woodwind and strings immediately in front of the microphone is very different from the combined tone if they are placed 20 ft. from each other and from the microphone...
...wrinkled faces twisted with fear and despair. Crippled old men thumped their canes on the floor for help. Aged women forgot their slippers and wrappers as the black-robed nuns herded them into a crawling, shuffling line down the rickety fire escapes. Querulous prayers rose in the darkness to blend with hysterical shrieks. With smoke and fire swirling about her, Mother Superior Agatha directed the exit, kept it from becoming a panic-driven stampede...
...Treaty of Versailles" (TIME, Sept. 22), much might have been different at Versailles last week. M. Briand ignored Herr Hitler last year, continued his peaceful rapprochement with Germany. But half the shopkeepers in France had been scared out of their wits. The Hitler threat had time to fade and blend, but suddenly came the threat of Anschluss (TIME, March 30, April 6). Dr. Julius Curtius, the German Foreign Minister, negotiated with Austria a plan for a Zollverein (customs union) with Germany, in such heavy-handed fashion that everyone knew Anschluss (a political union) to be his object. France mortally hates...
...every knowing Roman knows, Benito Mussolini has two faces, the scowling imperial mask which II Duce wears on every public appearance before his countrymen, and the unassuming, jovial expression with which he welcomes foreign visitors who need no intimidation. With a nice blend of the two expressions II Duce mounted a rostrum in Rome last week to open the International Grain Conference, a meeting attended by delegates of 46 wheat-growing nations. He scowled slightly because he knew that his photograph and his words would be reported in every Italian newspaper. He smiled often, avoided dogmatism, because he realized that...