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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound movie may be produced to teach students how to use Lamont, Metcalf revealed, adding that the English A tours of Widener are "not too effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Opens After Xmas | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...fifteenth and sixteenth century choral music. Second in a series of three chamber music concerts for the benefit of the Radcliffe Seventieth Anniversary Fund, Sunday's program followed its predecessor in featuring rarely heard "old" music. Once your ear was tuned to the modal harmonies and the hollow sound of open fifths, you could close your eyes and hear Buxtehude, DesPres, Lassus, and Dufay, dreaming of gold brocade and tapestries...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes or stare him down, but she keeps going. Her accent has been described by her ex-husband as "half British and half pickaninny." She does not even stop talking to smear on fresh lipstick; the words sound like a gurgle, but out they come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Sound & Fury. For all her garish conduct, Tallulah is capable of great charm, dignity and kindness. During the filming of A Royal Scandal, an older actor blew his lines in one scene 85 times, but Tallulah never made the slightest show of impatience. Her genuine respect for age is linked to her reverence for her parents, whose pictures are always on her dressing-room table. Last year she spent 20 minutes getting a long-distance call through to her gardener so that she could wish him a merry Christmas. Preposterously openhanded with money and gifts, she is also generous with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...cyclone called Tallulah, full of sound & fury, pulls wildly at everything around it, but it has a vacuum core of insecurity and loneliness. Behind its protective bluster and bombast, Tallulah's loneliness makes curious demands. She cannot sleep without a radio blaring near by; turn it off and she wakes up. When a power failure stilled her radio in the country, she insisted on keeping a guest up all night, talking, until the electricity came on again. She hates to be alone; she almost never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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