Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self." Hiding her personal pronoun behind her name, she writes of herself sometimes as 'T." some-times as ''Mary." The rising generation may find little to attract them in aging Mary Austin's reminiscences, but more than a few intransigeant oldsters will read them and sigh...
...will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed...
...Sooy. who engineered the making of the original Caruso records, felt that full justice had to be done to his friend's voice. He consulted Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor's able handyman, who proceeded to memorize Caruso's interpretations, each long held note, each sob and sigh. Conductor Shilkret donned earphones, then summoned his orchestra and. listening to the old records, conducted new accompaniments which would time with them exactly. Through two loudspeakers in a separate control room Engineer Sooy listened to the tenor's rich tones. Shilkret's new setting. He combined them...
...much for one Negro drummer from the Charles Young Post of Charlotte, N. C. Swinging his drum to his shoulder, he dropped out of line, mopping a wet brow. He craned his neck at the Selfridge Field planes and with a sigh, sank to a resting position on his instrument. The crowd swallowed...
Once past its rental-library title, which fits its subject like somebody else's glove, readers of New Author Flannagan's book will pull up only at its end papers, with a sigh. Though dealing with the fairly thoroughly canvassed tragic situation, or lack of situation, of half-breed Negroes in the South, the book tells its story with a ruthless, rare good humor. It is a highly un-saccharine good humor which will remind readers more of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn than of the Peterkin school of writers on Negro themes. And Author Flannagan, without...