Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto Anderson's laurels. The voice...
...slight, soft-voiced Gustavus Myers has written a sequel which leftists are not likely to crib. To declare that big U. S. fortunes are ending in the natural course of things is bad news for those who advocate ending them by "proletarian" revolution. Far less detailed than its predecessor, also far livelier, The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes goes back a long way to explain its title. Key of Myers' argument is the U. S. tradition against special privileges that are due to accident of birth...
...vicinity is going to be jammed. . . Hotel Brunswick-The Marionette Room-tempo is a little faster than some of the other hotel rooms, but still much fun. Dancing is okeh. . . Hotel Lenox-the Blue Train. I have fond memories of the Blue Train after an especially noisy evening. Soft lights and similar stuff made it very pleasant, with good music as an added factor. Recommended as an oasis...
Meanwhile Japan also turned on the U. S., reacting violently from its soft answers to Ambassador Joseph Clark Crew's dressing-down of last month. Mr. Tetsuma Hashimoto, president of a one-man patriotic society called the Purple Cloud, bought five columns in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri to call the U. S. "a pampered millionaire who dabbles in charity without having known suffering." In one of Japan's fishy journalistic coincidences, three important papers all poked fun at the U. S. on the same morning. The Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan will not remain indifferent...
Social rigmarole bores him stiff: he detests dinner-parties, loathes travel, has never been to the opera, took his first drink at 30 and has taken few since. He fights innovation, was almost the last person to adopt soft collars and a wrist watch, was once told by his wife "It's a good thing you were not the world's first baby, or you'd still be crawling...