Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They take rides in the millions of tiny droplets that are sprayed from the mouth or nose when people cough, sneeze, laugh, sing or talk in a forcible manner. Scientific experiment has proven that droplets may be carried by air currents from a room downstairs to a room upstairs. Thus 'droplet infection...
...hugger-mugger to the condemned Cavaradossi. But Scarpia will have double-crossed her as he has hundreds of performances before, will have served his rival a real execution instead of the blank cartridges promised. And Tosca, her own murder discovered, will jump once more on to the operatic parapet, sing an operatic farewell, fling herself far out of sight into a pillowed Tiber...
Last week in Manhattan, newspapers, billboards flaunted an advertisement: The World's Greatest Tenor would give a concert. The billboards carried pictures of a round-faced Italian with small, black eyes like pants buttons-a picture of Beniamino Gigli. He would sing, so he announced, favorite arias and "there is no tenor living who sings these melodious arias like Gigli. To hear any one of them is worth the price of your ticket...
...shut their eyes then, listened to melting outbursts rich in melody, sung in the approved Italian manner, lyrically, lovingly. They opened their eyes to see him lead on a little Italian child, ten-year-old Rina, his daughter. She played an accompaniment for him correctly, laboriously. They heard him sing again without distraction, heard him take perilous notes bravely, truly, cling to them fondly, heard pianissimos incredibly tender, applauded, many of them, shouted bravos, sat; others, mum, felt their praise unneeded to swell the confidence of the World's Greatest Tenor...
...Behind these four sat a gathering of foreign diplomats, three members of the Coolidge Cabinet-Secretaries Wilbur, Work and New-U. S. Superintendent Ballou of Education, John Hays Hammond* and President Coolidge himself. A band was playing "O Canada," which some of those present tried and others pretended to sing. When the band stopped the schoolboy who had left his seat in the row began to make a speech...