Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under "Antics at the Met" [TIME, Dec. 8], your critic makes note of Soprano Erna Schleuter's "sickening, undulating vibrato." No doubt what he meant was a ... tremolo...
...Bears please note...
Family Ties. In Peiping, China, 1) Wang Leihsiang had her mother arrested as an opium smoker; 2) her sister accused her brother's wife of adultery; 3) the brother's wife killed the two sisters with an ax, hanged herself, left a note explaining to her husband that she had planned on killing...
...attack on Pearl Harbor was not intended as a sneak attack; a formal declaration of war was somehow delayed through a diplomatic hitch. "It was a matter of great regret to the Japanese government [to learn] that the actual delivery of our note was delayed...
Drops of Blood. Anguish at Christie's has not always been confined to those who have been forced to sell. When Lord Nelson heard that a portrait of Lady Hamilton was to go on the block, he wrote a desperate note to his Emma: "But you are at auction. Good God! My blood boils." He succeeded in buying the picture (for ?300) before the auction day, and recorded happily that "I should have bought it . . . if it had cost me 300 drops of blood...