Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...severely schooled soprano like Eva Gauthier among such rhythmic perversities? She did surprisingly well. Her voice was much too good for jazz. You will occasionally find good voices singing jazz in musical comedies and in vaudeville, but they are always frayed, tired, careless. Mme. Gauthier's phrasing was neat and expressive. The fine artist simply would not down. The final phrase of Do It Again, for instance, she sang with the suavest expression. The test of the experiment lay in the response of the audience. The audience was vociferously enthusiastic...
During the week William J. Bryan paid a social call on Mr. Pinchot at Harrisburg, exclaiming: " There's an old phrase that is used to express hearty approval?' Strength to your arm!' That's the way I feel...
Counterbalancing these disadvantages are interesting chapters on 'set construction"; on "Problems of Presenting Plays" (a clever alliterative phrase, which could well have been the book's title), and on Pageants and Masques. Especially to be recommended is the chapter on "Problems of Presenting Plays". here the duties of the director, his manner and methods, are clearly shaped and defined. Nothing is more difficult in an amateur theatrical group than to decide who shall be the dominant force in the production. Definitely and decisively does Professor Wise settle the question, and dramatic organizations should profit by his statements...
...sincerely wish that the gallant officer had not used that phrase. I never heard that prayer between 1914 and 1918. But I shall never forget the agonized prayer of the French Ambassador to his friends in England to come to the help of France. We went within 24 or 48 hours. Why, 900,000 dead from the British Empire are scattered widely through military graveyards all over France and Flanders in evidence of England's friendship for France, and 1,300,000 of our best working men are now eating the bread of charity in England because we went...
...Cabinet approved a most interesting diplomatic document?a "perpetual treaty of peace" with Turkey. It was explained by the Polish authorities that "perpetual treaty" is not regarded as a meaningless phrase in Poland. The reason for this statement is that Turkey, of all the nations of Europe, refused to acknowledge the annihilation of Poland at the time of the Third Partition (1795) and until the deposition of Sultan Abdul Aziz (1876) the Polish Ambassador was always invited to the various ceremonies of the Turkish Court. During the 123 years in which the Polish State was nonexistent, Turkey was a warm...