Word: kettledrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below the surface. This zone conserves, focuses and carries sound waves over great distances. Sped by the sound-carrying properties of deep water (a function of temperature and density), the explosion of Sofar's underwater bomb comes to the receiving stations as a noise something like a rolling kettledrum crescendo, ending in a sharp report which can be timed to a tenth of a second...
Rossini: Overtures (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Italy's great kettledrum-banging composer is heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...
...Deal leanings that did not blind him to New Deal faults; his prose was not always exciting but his words were usually scrupulously fair. These qualities are shared by his good friend Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 48, Washington bureau chief since 1934 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose kettledrum voice frequently rattles the gimcracks on Franklin Roosevelt's desk when he rumbles out an embarrassing question at Presidential press conferences...
...Presidential campaign, which began as politely as a harpsichord duet, wound up with all the kettledrum banging of a Respighi crescendo...