Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more young people loved music. . . . There would not be so many suicides". . . . Sociologist Rudolph Binder of New York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany. . . Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna...
Voice?High and shrill...
...children as they went to school. The children would stick their tongues out at him, for he was tame and scolded only because his mother and father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street, in the final stiffening of rabies, given him by one of the town hounds or by some coyote bum. Four...
Sailors, arm-in-arm, lined the decks and guns of the Renown. Shrill boatswains' whistles piped as the ducal party stepped aboard. Then the standard of the Duke of York broke out at the masthead. Thunderous, a salute roared from the battleships Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow and Emperor of India. Humorously pat, the Renown's band blared: "The Girl I Left Behind...
Musicians the world over are designing their programs this season to commemorate the centennial of Beethoven's death.* Singers deep-voiced and shrill-voiced are dedicating their classical opening group to his songs, to arias from his Fidelio. Violinists and pianists are featuring his concertos and sonatas; painstakingly, reverently, string quartets are whispering his tenderest secrets, his hopes, his sentiments. Last week in Cincinnati Fritz Reiner opened the symphony season there with the Consecration of the House overture, played too the early Symphony in C. In Chicago Frederick Stock led the symphony there in the first of a series...