Word: ruckus
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...Bolshoi Theatre, Tenor Kozlovsky, noted for his freakishly large range, suddenly began to sing bass. Surprised, annoyed, but not to be outdone, Droviannikov lifted himself into a strangled tenor. Backstage, later, the two singers had to be separated by stagehands. The Soviet All-Union Committee on Art branded the ruckus as inexcusable "naughtiness," warned all singers to stay in their own range...
...ruckus even drew some notice from the pontifical pen of New York Times Music Critic Olin Downes. Said Pundit Downes: "A four-voiced fugue, in the best Benny Goodman style, would be something, though just what defies the imagination...
Regional Planning. The creation of seven "little TVA's" throughout the land is the dream of Senator Norris of Nebraska, who sired big TVA. The President put this program on his Must list for the special session last fall, let it be forgotten when the ruckus within TVA broke out. Last bill on the subject submitted was "National Planning Act of 1938" by Representative Joseph Mansfield of Texas, which proposed to curb floods, improve navigation, conserve water, soil, forests, etc., did not mention Power...
...years a sober man, brought a libel suit against him and the gallery (TIME, Jan. 18. 1937) and last month won a public apology for having been listed in a Tate catalogue as dead of alcoholism. No sooner was that over than Director Manson became embroiled in another ruckus...
...telephone, her uplifting eye lights up. First thing Wayfarer Aherne knows he has become the family's handsome, clean-shaven chauffeur; next thing he knows, the roving eye of Daughter Constance Bennett has lit up, too, and he becomes the centre of as stormy a family ruckus as ever squalled. Before its capricious hour-and-a-half is over, Merrily We Live whisks up a first-rate cast (Alan Mowbray, Clarence Kolb, Bonita Granville, Patsy Kelly), deposits them in a neat row leading straight to its sure-fire climax...