Word: crescendos
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...Right, the discovery of oil last spring near Guaranty's El Segundo holdings was no surprise. Talk of a dollar-for-dollar payment to shareholders grew loud as President Murphy leased the property in exchange for a 16% royalty on any oil produced, last week reached a mighty crescendo: the Guaranty's first well produced 2,500 barrels of oil on its first...
Chicago critics who had described Masini's U. S. debut in Lucia di Lammermoor last month, and subsequent appearances in La Gioconda and Tosca as "one long crescendo of excitement," now spoke of him unhesitatingly as "another Caruso." While Chicago music-lovers last week were congratulating each other on this sensation of the musical season, Tenor Masini was being watched by hawk-eyed impresarios from coast to coast...
When Edward VIII less than a year ago abdicated the throne of England to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, it was clear that almost anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start...
...together and all on the key-what a moment! . . . Here now the orchestra is well into it; here is that sforzando where the flutes blew out a gasket last Saturday night-they have taken it at 45 miles an hour and without a quiver. There is that crescendo rising to a high whole note where the cello threw a tire the time before that with a swoop and a triumphant scream from 20 strings they are over it and gone...
...imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something. The Government of Mexico, his roar rose to crescendo, faces danger, immediate danger, danger of a Fascist plot-a plot in which high officials of the Government are involved...