Word: falsettos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Library Committee, which governs the Library of Congress. He fought the League of Nations in the stormy '20's, favored U. S. participation in the World Court. In appearance he is red-faced, small (5 ft. 6 in.), a neat dresser. His addresses, delivered in falsetto, are usually admonitory, pedagogical. When his party was in power, he used to wear a wide political smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags. No one questions his sincerity and within...
...suspects from seven to six, Chan lurks omniscently on the set while the guests take turns popping in & out. He pins things at last on the most disarming member of the cast, after a sentimental interlude with another Chinese (recognizable as such by black pajamas, bent knees, croaking falsetto, handscraping). All this is capably strung together but will take the breath of none but rabid Channists...
...Hell is murky. What need we fear, who knows it?" With these words she vanished. The gabardined figure shrank. In her place there crouched an old man, dragging one of his withered limbs: "It is not resentment for the past that stings me," he shrieked in the falsetto of age, "I seem to foresee what I am doomed to suffer from these men in the future." He was, gone. The figure quaked and clung closer into its corner, and a multitude of locusts appeared, and their heads were like crowns of gold, their faces as the faces of men, their...
...temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which shimmers and hints, to sing with a somewhat uncertain falsetto a song called "You Love Me." Miss Baclanova tells Inspector Ellery: "I read men like books...
...which . . . the outlines were tremendous . . . the details sordid. . . ." Later, with amused detachment, he conjured up Elizabeth. In Portraits in Miniature he selected such piquant souls as Sir John Harington. who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Spindle-shanked, bespectacled, reclusive, with a long red beard and a high falsetto voice, he was the point of many a pundit's quip.* Died. Paul Moritz Warburg, 63, famed banker, board chairman of The Manhattan Co. and (also founder) the International Acceptance Bank; of hypostatic pneumonia after a long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg...