Word: solo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
...overhauled and refinished and last week it was towed to the airport. It was first taken on a trial trip by one of the experienced aviators and when it was declared to be in perect condition Crocker Snow 1L., without a parachute, took her up for a twenty minute solo...
...visitation of the same spirit causes Elmer's ejection, three years later, from Mizpah Theological Seminary. But he has known the intoxication, stronger than drink, of speaking from a pulpit; has learned, among other rewards of the profession, the ease with which a pastor, who is a baritone solo incarnate, can seduce the parish kittens. A few years of selling farm implements and indulging in small town waitresses are an ideal prolongation of Elmer Gantry's novitiate for his first great phase, evangelism...
...69th Congress was sent to eternal rest and President Coolidge was addressed in a solo parody...
...strikes a tone of modern cynicism. Aelfrida appears before the royal guest in all her glory, wearing a golden robe, splendid in her favorite gems. The betrayer is betrayed. He plunges his dagger into his heart. He commits suicide in a "nice" way, explains Miss Millay. No fuss, tenor solo, orchestral pomposity; no sentimental worblings of lost love and noble remorse. Like a true Saxon, he quietly takes his life, "for himself," not glory or revenge. Aelfrida weeps but Eadgar says to her: "Thou hast not tears enough in thy narrow