Word: croaks
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From camouflaged amplifiers high over-head a hollow voice suddenly began to croak: Senator Gerald P. Nye was saying that as soon as the witnesses had been sworn, cameramen would please retire. Three white-thatched witnesses stood up. The amplifiers carried the clunk-clunk-clunk of cameras along with the words of the oath. Flashlamps flickered like heat lightning...
...Minister of Commerce Paul Marchandeau to Brussels this week. There M. Marchandeau will tell Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland that France, unable to permit Belgium to flood her with goods at devaluation prices, must follow Great Britain in upping tariffs against Belgium. In the French Chamber, despite a croak from No. 1 French Socialist Leon Blum, the Deputies of France voted rousing gold standard confidence in the Flandin Government...
...audience cheered itself into a hoarse croak, critics wrote rhapsodic reams and the Wagner concert Arturo Toscanini gave for his season's farewell in Manhattan last week left everyone groping for non-existent superlatives. Many a conservative New Yorker pronounced it the greatest concert within memory, credited its success not only to the little Italian conductor but also to Soprano Gertrude Kappel who majestically outdid herself as Brünnhilde in the Immolation scene from Götterdümmerung...
Poetess Sarojini Naidu's daughter is not Latmaja but Padmaja (TIME, June 5.). Gandhi does not croak but only frogs do on this side of the world. Gandhi speaks...
Next week Producer Aborn will present The Yeomen of the Guard, a more serious Gilbert & Sullivan operetta not often revived. If he does as well as he used to do, Frank Moulan will get in some heavy dramatic licks as the gleeman with the croak of a frog-o. Of the present production it may be said, with the chorus...