Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freshmen were indistinguishable from all other freshmen. Queer and foolish in their actions, they scuffed off to their collegiate rooms a mile away from the "hill." Here they would play their victrolas, tinkle their absurd pianos, sing perhaps a parody of a song whose heroes should be Frankie and Meiklejohnnie, and even, it may be, pin sad pennants to their walls. Yet, in the next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about...
...theory of speech is that it began with gestures: "Primitive man would sing, grunt or roar to express emotions just as the animals did. He would pantomime with his face and limbs to express his ideas to his fellows, and as he pantomimed with his hands his tongue would follow suit.* But as he came to occupy his hands more and more in his crafts he would have to rely more on gestures of the face, tongue and lips. Then it would come about that pantomime action would be recognized by sound as well as sight. Speech was thus born...
...prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive as "he can kiss my foot." Richard Hale, in blackface, does a sympathetic though slightly sing-song interpretation of Israel Dubois...
...came as surprising news. He writes orthodox music; the Metropolitan Opera produced his Shanewis. His principal resemblance to Composers Berlin and Gershwin is in his face: the three men have aqueline, bony faces, high foreheads, strong jaws. Musically, the three are scattered. The two Jews write so that people sing their songs. Cadman, although by no means profound, writes for listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks with chords. Cadman, people find, who have followed...
...club was still swinging, he heard a dull crack. Rosa Ponselle toppled over at his feet. A ball sliced by an unknown golfer had struck her forehead just above the eyes. She was unconscious with a slight concussion of the brain. Nonetheless the woman's unbeaten will to sing which got her vocal lessons, during her Meriden. Conn., poverty, carried her the next evening to sing at Lake Placid for the benefit of the Saranac Lake Society for the Control of Tuberculosis...