Word: croakings
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From "An American," San Francisco: "To a blind, greedy, materialistic pig: Where have you been for the past eight years, you durnd stupid fool? . . . May you suffer the tortures of hell before you croak, and be damned for all eternity...
...easy to see why Berlioz is called the "father of modern orchestration." In Mephisto's sardonic serenade, for instance, plucked strings serve as a monstrous guitar-like accompaniment; in the Ride to the Abyss, woodwinds croak like vultures and wild hoofbeats run through the strings. But the Damnation of Faust is not a mere succession of orchestral and choral "effects." Besides dramatic fireworks, it contains pages of melodic beauty--like Marguerite's Romance--that place it among the most inspired works of the Romantic period...
...Paul's training is thorough. As the only English cathedral that gives a free boarding-school education in exchange for singing, it gets the cream of the youthful crop. At the last vacancy (which opened up when a member's voice gave its first adolescent croak), 72 boys applied for the position. They were given intelligence tests, scholarship tests and as many types of musical-aptitude tests as an eight-year-old can take...
...cocked an eye at me/ And we just sit there cockeyed as could be"); You Belong to Me No. 2 ("Bring me pawpaws in a paper poke / Send me money, darlin' when I'm broke / Make your will out to me when you croak / You belong...
...familiar face: Gambler Frank Costello, returned from Milan, Mich., where he is serving an 18-month stretch for contempt of Congress, to face a federal charge of evading $73,000 in income taxes. From Costello, prison-pale and some 30 Ibs. lighter, the reporters heard a familiar croak: "Not guilty...