Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throated quality peculiar to Russians and so well suited to music in the minor mood. There are basses which seem to come from the bowels of the earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last...
Most incongruous feature of opera-of all arts the most, wooden-is to watch ponderous paunchy bravos woo and buss great overstuffed divas whilst golden notes soar sonorously. Last week, when John Forsell, onetime (1909-10) baritone with Manhattan's Metropolitan, now chief of Stockholm's Royal Opera House, ordered all his bulky singers to reduce, U. S. operagoers were grateful to him for articulating what had been often thought but seldom said. Fat Swedish stars protested, saying that bulk aids musical beauty and that they sing best when they are well fed. But the order remained...
...another laid low Acting Police Commandant Major Arthur Remanba Bey. Falling back before the mob police climbed to the roof of the Law Courts Building, too high for brickbats to soar. Firing from this vantage point they put lead and fear into the milling crowd. By evening Egyptian soldiers, called from Sidi Bishr Barracks eight miles away, had restored order...
Flimsy, frail contraptions that will soar in little wind, will take a man size load off the ground with no power: those were the gliders. Outstanding were the German craft introduced by the American Motorless Aviation Corp...