Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soft Snaps Ahead...
...these exercises should be taken at dawn and sunset, on an empty stomach, on a firm but soft seat, in a quiet neighborhood, naked except for a loin cloth...
...play even simple compositions an artist must do more than tootle scales. He has to produce overtones, color, play loud & soft. Violinists depend on "bowing" technique. A flautist depends on "lipping." By shaping his lips differently, altering the quantity and speed of the escaping air, making it strike the mouthpiece at different angles, he can produce ingenious tonal colors, change the volume, manage the most difficult harmonics. The quality of the tone is affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver...
...inquisitive observers who admired a riotous display of colored lights and strains of soft music from the right bank of the Charles Saturday evening, students of the Business School were having their gala evening of the year...
Rounding out the bill is a typical detective story picture, "Smart Blonde" featuring Glenda Farrel as a newspaper reporter who goes soft over a butcher-like sleuth (Barton MacLane...