Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand correctly, to breathe so that the diaphragm region under the lower unfixed ribs expands while the first lumbar vertebra protrudes, to cultivate an open throat-unless a pupil has learned these fundamentals at least, no capable, conscientious vocal teacher will turn him loose on the musical market. A singer should make sure that his palate is arched, his tongue slightly grooved, the back wall of his throat visible, his upper lip free...
...Some pupils have been taught to hold a lighted candle in front of their mouths to make sure that no gusts of breath come out with the sound, to sing into an open umbrella so that the sound of their own voices comes back to them. One old Italian teacher used to train his pupils on the syllables bee-bah-lo-nee exclusively. Methods and phobias outnumber teachers. Alda's teacher, the late great Mathilde Marchesi, who also taught Melba and Calve, would never permit a pupil of hers to have her hair washed...
...second wife, 56-year-old Anna Hyatt Huntington, is the daughter of Zoologist Alpheus Hyatt. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a sculptor fully equal in ability to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France...
Furious at himself, H. R. H. cabled to Ireland. Next day Archie Compson, towering British golf teacher, left Ireland in a hurry, streaked for Biarritz to coach his royal pupil back to form...
...pupil also grows smaller when the eye scans something at short range, expands when the eye looks at distant objects...