Word: raftered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retorted pretty Joan Todd, Radcliffe '41, her blue eyes flashing, "I didn't learn to do it on my dates with Harvard men!" She was referring to the rafter-rattling shriek which climaxes her main scene in the Student Union production of Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead," scheduled for Sanders Theatre tonight and tomorrow...
...symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen...
...leaves much to be desired, swimmers have to paddle across the odd-sized Navy bath, and Yale offers a round-cornered affair with a high-diving board that frightens many a visiting leaper into a poor performance, while a high-diver at Princeton would leave his scalp on a rafter without much effort...
...help with the publicity, sell programs in the lobby. The Miracle was in San Francisco when Gellert fell ill, left the company, went to Asheville, N. C. to convalesce. One of his first sights there was the corpse of a Negro two days dead dangling from a barn rafter in full view of passersby...
...youngish-looking man whom opera audiences had known as a romantic Romeo, a wistful Pelleas, a dreamy Peter Ibbetson. Last week Tenor Edward Johnson was dealing with hard realities, amiably settling disputes, busily drawing up schedules for 14 weeks to come. As a singer Tenor Johnson was never a rafter-rending vocalist but as an artist he was possessed of unfailing taste and intelligence, a man on friendly terms with all his colleagues, one who out of working hours could detach himself from opera and view it as a keen outsider...