Word: lyrically
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...underground world called St. Martin's Land. A few days later he meets a tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house as a green cave, controls her jealousy of his amphibian kinsman. By this time the reader has guessed that Author Dane is not writing a simple triangle fantasy: Henry and Molly symbolize the struggle between the Poet and Domesticity...
...Baltic cruise in 1937, Alan John Villiers, author of The Cruise of the Conrad and of many a lyric tribute to the beauty of sailing vessels, was surprised to see six fine full-rigged ships in one week. Two were Swedish, two Danish, one was Norwegian, one Polish. Because four square-rigged grain ships had been lost that year, Author Villiers had almost given up hope for them when the six vessels in the Baltic raised his spirits. They were schoolships...
Nine years ago, in a play of mine in rehearsal in the Lyric Theatre in London, the time was supposed to change from the present to 1783, during a blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce...
...subaudible note was "sounded," or more accurately, turned on. I was reminded years later of the effect by the sound from the bowels of the earth that yet was no sound, that preceded the big shock of the Los Angeles earthquake. The glass in every chandelier in the old Lyric commenced to tinkle softly, the opaque windows in the balcony all rattled gently. And the wave of fear, according to shaken witnesses afterwards, seemed to sweep over them, not from the stage, as my plans demanded, but from the opposite direction, from outside, from Shaftesbury Avenue...
Radio entertainment, which began with hams playing phonograph records and broadcasting the girl friend's lyric contralto, is rapidly returning to its pristine simplicity. Not only in the U. S. have sponsors twigged to the fact that the simple news-character and game shows are cheapest. Last week came evidence that the trend was well established in Europe. British Broadcasting Corp. last week challenged chess-playing listeners to a match by radio and mail. Six staff members chosen to play BBC's game will broadcast their moves. Listeners will I counter by postcard. The broadcasting players will meet...