Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget to bemuse Britain's electorate into sensations of overflowing plenty. If this works, the Conservative Party may be able to win a general election and five more years of power. "Last year," cried the Chancellor, in his at times lyric budget speech, "the people of this country sweetened their lives with 80,000 more tons of sugar, smoked 6,500,000 more pounds of tobacco and washed away their troubles with 270,000,000 pints of beer!" Beamishly Mr. Chamberlain announced, and as his words were uttered they instantly became effective throughout Great Britain, that the nuisance...
...Hitler, emulating Martin Luther, nailed a list of 25 Nazi "theses" to the door of Munich's Hofbräuhaus, and Naziism was on its way. Last week the same man was in the same place, talking over every radio network in Germany at the top of his lyric lungs...
...something more. A tender, ingenuous poetry pervades its tenuous narrative, produces a unique mood which might have resulted in literature from a collaboration by Ernest Thompson Seton and the late W. H. Hudson. Superficially an unlikely anecdote about two animals, it is really a gentle and persuasive nature lyric, expressing, in a photographic style brilliant enough to make it one of the best pictures of the year, the calm, dangerous mystery of mountains, woods and snow...
Franca Somigli was Marian Bruce Clarke of Manhattan, whose Park Avenue aunt staked her to study in Italy. As Franca Somigli she sang three years at the Scala in Milan. In Chicago she had big dramatic roles in Andrea Chenier and Il Trovatore, both ill-suited to her delicate lyric voice. After the Trovatore criticisms, she was so cross that friends had to stop her from packing her bags and leaving Chicago...
...seven songs, trips lightly up & down the stage in flat heels and Lanvin costumes. Unlike Pierre Fresnay. who holds the record for the greatest number of performances in Musset and for speaking better English than any other French actor, Mile Printemps does not always articulate the graceful Coward lyrics sufficiently to make them intelligible. But she and M. Fresnay provide an agreeable, if not an eventful, evening in the theatre. Best tune: "I'll Follow My Secret Heart." Best lyric: "Regency Rakes...