Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morton Downey, who grosses $250,000 a year from radio alone, has no such fabulous voice as John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
...Berlin's writing is in its honesty, in the maturity of her vision of character, her ability to be unsparing without being malicious. Its weakness is that situations, intense and often moving, are not exhausted of their drama before other complications crowd them out. The book has its lyric passages, but they are more often merely an attempt to achieve lyricism, and the subject is in itself harsh...
...nonetheless one of the Soviet Union's best-paid, most honored writers-winner of a Stalin prize, the Red Banner of Labor, and, last week, the Order of Lenin, Russia's top civilian honor. Incredibly prolific, he writes pamphlets, radio broadcasts, recently published a volume of lyric verse. His only rival in popularity is stocky Mikhail Sholokhov, 39, author of And Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) and The Don Flows Home to the Sea (TIME, Aug. 4, 1941). Pravda has been serializing his new epic They Fought for Their Country...
...Sensation of the peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to the Shakespearean sonnet...
...ever given a better description of what happened than Jimmie himself gave last week: "I taught him how to groove, how to make it sweet-the strong bass he had dates from that time. He stuck pretty well to my pattern-developed a lovely singing tone, a lyric, melodic expression, and then too, him being the son of a preacher, he had fervor...