Word: crescendos
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...Springs the President stopped off at Savannah, where he helped celebrate the bicentennial of his "other State" with a speech in which for the first time he took public notice of the crescendo of criticism of his monetary policies. As befitted the occasion, President Roosevelt studded his address with historical references. Herbert Hoover once publicly compared himself to Washington at Valley Forge. Franklin Roosevelt also linked himself with the Father of his Country when he declared...
...bolster the NRA I difficult indeed to see. Actually, what is happening is simply that the NRA is sinking to the grubby level of the back-clapping, hand-wrenching Rotarian, and will presently descend to the more congenial state of shrieking hysteria; it will thus attain to a shrill crescendo of asininity. The effect of the whole thing is comparable to that produced by a firecracker exploding in a bowl of whipped cream; by this time the worthy General Johnson must feel something like a well-used intellectual fingerbowl. It is not entirely without significance that the American Legion...
...successive beats; red to mean soft, green to mean loud, red and green together to hold, lights out to stop. Besides these each stand will have two smaller lights to convey individual messages to the players, say when the conductor wants the kettledrummer to pummel out a thundering crescendo...
Fair superlatives, rumbling throughout the nation's Press for many a month, were nearing crescendo last week. Burton Holmes, famed traveloger, was hired as the national barker to make nightly 15-min. talks over an NBC network. Daytimes Lecturer Holmes, also the Fair's cinematographer, watched a miniature Hollywood spring up where, through a glass partition, fairgoers will see real cinemas filmed & recorded on a 60-ft. stage. Excerpt from one of the Holmes Fair talks...
...more famed play, made memorable by the late Actress Jeanne Eagels, tries to justify the ways of Heroine Sadie Thompson to Man. Director Lewis Milestone has made semi-respectable, unexciting, the old sure-fire melodrama. Of the hot Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does...