Word: stentorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though an heir would have been even more welcome, the birth of a daughter-his first child-to Morocco's dashing King Hassan II stirred the nation to stentorian rapture last week. Twenty-one gun salutes echoed through Rabat and Casablanca...
...opposition, and that he is often tight and rasping in the middle and lower registers. But his top register can be glorious, and he often makes up in sheer strength and virility for what he lacks in sensuous sound or vocal finesse. He is at his best in such stentorian roles as Manrico in // Trovatore and the title role of Ernani, and his brilliant Otello is one of the great interpretations of present-day opera...
Died. Hugh Dalton. Baron of Forest and Frith, 74, onetime power in Britain's Labor Party, a stentorian, expensively tailored Eton-and-Cambridge product who renounced court life-his father was tutor to Queen Victoria's children-for Socialist politics, rose to become Minister of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's World War II coalition government and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's postwar Labor government, but in 1947 blasted his career by indiscreetly leaking his budget proposals to a reporter friend, thereafter sank ever deeper into political obscurity until Queen Elizabeth appointed...