Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although one of the Houses would be the most convenient location for any alley it is thought that the noise of falling pins would necessitate expensive sound-proofing...
From another corner came the sound of "de big bass," and a tall, toothy colored gentleman added a little rhythm to the saxes. Behind a rack of dinner coats came the delicate gyrations of a cornet, and a powerful, perspiring man in his undershirt could be seen literally wrapping himself around his instrument...
...deceived the students on the grounds that the supplies were used "to aid Moscow in Harlem." It is needless to point out that logically there is no connection between the use of the money and the intentions of the collectors three months before. Where the libelous letter dissolves into sound and fury is that the equipment was not used "to aid Moscow," but as part of a parade against War and Fascism. There are more than several people in the United States who are against War and Fascism and who are not Communists...
Back in Washington after 18 days at Hyde Park and on Long Island Sound. Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week found himself somewhat in the position of most U. S. citizens at the end of summer vacations: swamped with work. Items that demanded his immediate attention were the uproar about Associate Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black (see p. 10); two speeches on the same day; and the war in China. Pitching into this impressive lineup, the President started with...
...spirited imitation of Stokowski facing the music. That it is an imitation is largely owing to the technical complications involved in the making of musical films. The orchestral music in 100 Men & a Girl was actually played in Philadelphia by Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded in eight sound tracks instead of the usual one. The orchestra men who appear on the screen are simply Hollywood musicians going through the motions, with Stokowski presiding majestically over the vacuum. Deanna Durbin went East to record her songs before a single scene had been shot on the Universal...