Word: quaverings
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...tunes of torchy temper, sung with a fine ear for theatrical effect, e.g., the long, aching swoop, the insinuating droop, the ecstatic quaver, the lilting bounce, the suggestive growl. Tenor Short accompanies himself on the piano...
...seem the type to ask people to do what they wished-only what she wished. Where Dorothy shimmered in white satin, Eartha smoldered in red bugle beads. Where Dorothy swayed in sweet resignation, Eartha froze and darted her almond eyes. When Eartha sang, it was in a smoky, reedlike quaver. Most of the time she was the fervid, grasping female as she trumpeted C'est Si Bon, Après Moi and The Heel. But at the end she often inserted a wistful and not very convincing twist-the manner of the little girl lost in the wicked world...
...Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering old Edouard Herriot summarized for the fearful. "I refuse to accord [the Germans] either my sympathy or friendship," Herriot complained in his best emotional quaver. "The U.S. de serves that we make sacrifices for it. But France cannot sacrifice her conscience...
...President expressed his emotions of the moment: "For the first Thanksgiving in the last four, we sit down to our traditional Thanksgiving feast without the fear of the casualty list hanging over us. We no longer have to worry about the killing in Korea." Then with a slight quaver he continued: "My wife and I are just exactly like many thousands of other families in America tonight. We have home our son. and what is far more important than that is that our grandchildren have home their Daddy . . . We are very thankful . . . May we never again have to have...
...wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston is that one knows he is really frightened. One feels just what he must be feeling...