Word: staccatos
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...Mirror Winchell became increasingly staccato, informative and readable. He developed the Monday column (sub-headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth"). He invented "welded," "sealed" and "middle aisled" to mean married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini *Minuet from "L'Arlesienne" Bizet *Soviet Iron Works Mossolov *Prelude and Love Death from "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinieu-Heifetz "Artist's Life," Waltzes Strauss *Sixth Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Granados *March, "On the Mall" Goldman *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...March, "Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *First Movement (Allegro moderato) "Unfinished" Symphony Schubert *Song to the Evening Star, "Tannhauser" Wagner *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Waltz Scene from "Faust" Gounod *The Lost Chord Trumpet solo: Roger Voisin Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinicu-Heifetz *Procession of the Sardar, from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippolitov-Ivanov *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Young Editor Luce, tall, spare, blond, had a staccato voice, a staccato personality, an extraordinary power of concentration...
Last Sunday, as a member of General Motors' radio singing troupe, Soprano Sack aimed at her super-high C in a quick staccato passage in Strauss's Voices of Spring, succeeded in singing a brief B, amazed her listeners with two long, rarefied high G's toward the end of this difficult work. This week she makes her U. S. operatic debut, disdaining a wig, as a 100% blonde Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in the Chicago City Opera. Accompanied by her husky, jovial husband, a onetime Berlin taxicab driver who is now her manager...