Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshmen living in the Yard will be deeply grieved to find themselves awakened the first morning at five minutes of seven by the leisurely but loud tolling of a deep-toned bell, slung high in the spire of the new Memorial Chapel. For five minutes it will continue its song until everyone is thoroughly awake, and then it will considerately stop. It is rung by wheel and bell-rope, taking great skill to manipulate it, at seven, quarter of nine, nine, and thenceforth on the hour throughout the day till four. Two other bells, which compete with...
...Author, very much like his hero, has also eaten rose-leaves in the artistic provinces. Born in Buffalo but cradled in song (his aunts and uncles were lusty singers), he liked music, was encouraged to cultivate his voice at Rochester's Eastman School of Music. There he spent three years, singing, designing scenes, painting, acting, mingling in Rochester's mixed society. No fool, Horgan found he was no Chaliapin either. When he was offered a job as librarian in the New Mexico Military Institute he took it, still has it. Young (30), unmarried, Author Horgan has found time...
...twilight comes a glimpse, through the drawn shades, of the Bulfinch drawing rooms, and of the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons, filled with the light of the Boston Transcript. Closed to the Boston, which is now Greater, is a world, a complete world, sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End. Turn down an empty Glass! Or so we read in the magazines...
...urchins about to be let out of school. With thermometers at 91° during the final Conference session, many delegates preferred to sip long drinks at the bar downstairs, leaving their places empty. Those who sat and sweltered whispered jokes among themselves as leading Conference delegates read its swan songs. Depending on the swan, the song was either acrid, gloomy, polite or optimistic. Swans...
Lacking a Toscanini to dominate its fitful orchestra, Bayreuth concentrated on Impresario Heinz Tietjen's elaborate scenic effects, jammed the stage with 700 people in the song-contest scene. Most distinguished performance was the Pogner of famed Basso Alexander Kipnis. Eva was sung by Metropolitan's Soprano Maria Müller...