Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventor is dark-goateed John W. Haussermann Jr., 32 (whose father, a wealthy Cincinnatian, owns three Philippine gold mines). The most commonly used solo instruments in concertos are the piano, violin and cello, and concertos have been written for other instruments: clarinet, horn, saxophone, even the double-bass. For the voice, composers have written vocalises (wordless songs), have included wordless voice parts in orchestral works, but hitherto have not essayed an out-&-out concerto...
...high-school girls are wearing guard rings of black jet, reported Women's Wear last week. Wearing of the ring shows "a thought" for absent soldier boy friends, quickly indicates to all those in the know that the wearer is solo only because she is a patriot, not a wallflower...
...business of running the submarine gamut was full of terrible danger. From the hospital at Coco Solo Naval Base in the Canal Zone last week came one of the grisliest tales of the war. It was told by a haggard, wan-eyed, bearded sailor, who looked like a man of 50. He was a mess boy named Robert Emmett Kelly, aged 17, sole survivor of a middle-sized tanker that a pig boat potted somewhere in the Caribbean...
...under way one night when an Italian voice from Moscow butted in, so rattled the announcer that he quit, after one three-minute round. Rome then made the mistake of shifting to Venice for a performance of the opera Andrea Chénier. When the opera began, every solo became a duet, every duet a trio, until Italian radiomen finally...
...excitement every collector knows at finding a long-sought item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which an acquaintance with jazz...