Word: shrill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of the performance: shrill Gracie Barrie singing I've Got To Get Hot, a ballad about a choir singer turned crooner which includes the following tristich: I've squelched my ideals, Now I belch at my meals...
Meanwhile, the extravaganza's ballyhoo was reaching its shrill peak, the work of Pressagent Richard Maney, a character twice as big and almost as fantastic as Mr. Rose. Ballyhooligan Maney's stock in trade is emphasizing his employer's lunacy, inventing alliterative nicknames for him in the Press. He has had little trouble on the first score, for even Mrs. Rose is convinced that her impetuous little man has taken leave of his senses. But the best nicknames the pressagent has been able to think up for his boss so far have been "The Rasputin...
...challenge for a Broadway-bred composer. With music frequently inspired, Mr. Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
...Lyons-Malamuth version is reported to be considerably less cautious than that presented in Russia. As staged last week the play includes a ludicrous cartoon of a small, shrill, Leninist stickler who accuses Ludmilla of "right deviations" and insists on "liquidating the canary." Ludmilla defines a bourgeois thus: "A bourgeois is a person who's got something that someone else wants...
...ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound that has been heard in the land since a whisper from Samuel Insull was a roar from the douds. . . . I refer to the shrill, waning "No, no, no," while Referee Arthur Donovan ended the fight by counting...