Word: obbligatoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess of Bedford House the squatters marched in solemn ceremony, singing lustily to the obbligato of a small band headed by a Scottish bagpiper.* Then they were whisked away in buses furnished by the British Communist Party, which had decided to move them into an East End rest center maintained by the Government for building workers. But the building workers made a sad show of proletarian solidarity. With a cry of "Stand by your homes, lads," squads of threatened residents raced through the rest home, locking dormitory doors and posting guards...
...torrid heat made closing the doors unthinkable. Then nearby British artillery opened fire, presumably against Indonesian guerrillas. Sir Archibald, seasoned diplomat though he was, gave up, with a shrug of his shoulders. "I can't compete with this," said he. General Mansergh, not realizing that the thunderous obbligato was being played by his own guns, bellowed: "The Ambassador can't compete with the Almighty-rain and thunder...
Koussevitzky's current ambition: to commission a symphony with a contralto obbligato part for her, so that she can tour with the orchestra...
Died. Major Putnam Bradlee ("Putty") Strong, 71, onetime "handsomest man in the U.S. Army," whose sentimental jour neys (contemporary estimate: 41,339 miles) and subsequent nuptials with mad cap Actress May Yohe, then Lady (Hope Diamond) Hope, were accompanied by an international obbligato of tongue-clacking and ended in a 1910 divorce after she accused him of pawning $300,000 worth of her jewels; in University...
...when it drags, the screen story of Al Schmid has a compelling doggedness and honesty. The cast, especially Messrs. Garfield and Clark, put it over with a notable absence of affectation. The picture's single, sustained combat sequence is keenly written and filmed, fiercely exciting, with its shrilling obbligato of the enemy's "Mreen yoo dyee (Marine, you die!) Mreen tonight yoo dyee!" set against the jabbing technical chatter of the frantically overworked machine-gun crew...