Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City Four (a teacher, a cashier, a clerk, a statistician) from Brooklyn. These young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads, put on high collars, white trousers, "dink" caps, and orange-&-black blazers, rolled gaily into Central Park on two tandem bicycles. They sang Ben Jonson's lyric Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. Then they swung through There's a Tavern in the Town which was handsomely embellished with "swipes"?passages in which the first tenor holds the melody while the lower voices move in opposite directions in the scale. For their performance, appearance and deportment...
Elegant in phrase, lyric in tone and innocent of harsh technicalities, a broad review of modern trends in his own field is what the British Association for the Advancement of Science has come to expect of its president, at its annual get-together for exchange of news and views. This year's president, William Whitehead Watts, 75, emeritus professor of Geology at London's Imperial College, did not disappoint B. A. A. S. when it convened last week in Norwich. Professor Watts talked about Earth. "The Earth." said he, "is 'a lady of a certain...
...commodity which is transmitted from State to State. Burkan's persistent retort has been that music is "intangible and incorporeal." Lawyer Thomas Day Thacher. U. S. Solicitor General under Herbert Hoover, entered the trial to argue that ASCAP existed only to protect the rights of composers and lyric writers, pooh-poohed the idea that the organization was potent enough to dominate an industry which includes such interests as American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Electric, Westinghouse, Radio Corporation of America...
Cocaine Sandwiches. Next to the Duke of Manchester's acquittal, nothing so revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
...days later near Bournemouth one William Mitchell, a herdsman, was walking by a lily pond near the late "Rats" house. He saw Mrs. Rattenbury advance slowly into the pond, a dagger in her right hand. "Hi, stop!" cried Herdsman Mitchell but the Sentimental Lyric Writer stabbed herself six times in the breast, finally pierced her heart and slipped with a gush of blood among the lilies...