Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion of ladies' bands am I, but unless the female method of tone production tillers radically from that of the male it seems almost libelous to attribute drooling to their horn players (TIME, March 25 ). Closer observation would show you that it is condensed moisture from the breath rather than saliva which accumulates within the tubing of brass instruments. As for ascribing the difficulty of French horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone...
...Emma Eames had beauty but her emotions were chilled. In pre-War days Olive Fremstad and Geraldine Farrar were rivals for the role. Fremstad, at heart a Wagnerian, played it like a lioness. Farrar's conception was small, a little petulant. After Maria Jeritza's first breath- taking performance in 1921 the part was hers for the ten years she was at the Metropolitan. Upon her leaving, the opera was dropped from the repertoire until last week's revival...
...McCay looks much less like the Nemo for which he was a model than like his late father, who died last summer at 62. Also like his father, he always wears his hat at work. Although his pen lacks the elder McCay's magic for intricate background and breath-taking perspective, Son Winsor has faithfully copied the characters of Impie, Flip, the Princess, has made Nemo much sturdier, much more competent looking...
...bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk to a signboard for nine straight mornings. Each time you walk backward nine steps and forward nine steps, cussing God and Jesus Christ with every breath...
...cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip Faulkneresque psychology will find many a passage in Pylon that will make their breath come faster...