Word: falsetto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...falsetto sequel to the Squalus and Thetis tragedies occurred last week on Lake Michigan. Just off Chicago's Jackson Park, a submarine, wallowing on the surface, got in trouble. In 15 minutes the entire crew was rescued. The entire crew consisted of one Barney Connett, 34, a gasoline service station manager by vocation, an inventor and mechanic in his spare time.' Rescue apparatus: a speed boat and a lasso...
...hate war!", uttered by a titanic voice last night in the small courtyard of Lowell House brought dozens of Bellboys scurrying to listen. The curious were well rewarded for they heard successively the voices of Roger Bigelow Merriman (demanding quiet in a falsetto), J. J. Toomey, of the Cambridge City Council (telling how he stood on Larz Anderson Bridge and saw nothing but disappointed spectators returning from the Stadium) and Franklin Delane Roosevelt '04 (revealing that he hates...
...waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand of Connecticut's onetime Senator Frederic Walcott who was presiding as toastmaster, launched into a falsetto speech acknowledging the gratitude of ducks for what the diners were doing for them. This done, he started for the door, stumbled, dropped his basket. Out popped three live wild ducks, which went flapping up & down the room to the hilarious confusion of the distinguished but convivial banqueters...
...Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice, a peach of a falsetto. I'd make a good yodler...
...daily routine whether in an office, in a tall building or plowing a 40-acre field, fighting chinch bugs or grasshoppers, or going down in a mine to get ore, standing at a loom, sweating at a forge, or working in a forest. All these are real. No falsetto here. No emotional stuff-but hard reality. . . . Landon has always touched reality. He has always faced life at first hand. He is no theorist, and the Lord be praised, he is no orator...