Word: stentorian
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...Sheir's stentorian breathing was under discussion before a judge because snorer Sheir had haled Neighbor Gutwirth into court for repeatedly pounding on the wall to wake him, thereby making "unnecessary noise." Sheir claimed that his snoring, by contrast, is necessary noise. Gutwirth admits it. "What the hell," he says. "Snoring is like breathing, and how in the world are you going to ask somebody to stop giving it the old in-and-out? He can't help his snoring, but at least he can move...
...Murder." Raised on an east-central Texas cotton farm, Connally went off to college in 1891, heard a speech by the Democratic idol of the day, William Jennings Bryan, and was so smitten that he copied the great man's bow-tie-and-frock-coat dress, his stentorian manner of speech and his shaggy haircut. Connally got his law degree at the University of Texas, practiced in Marlin, Texas, and served two terms in the state legislature. In 1916 he won the congressional seat from Texas' 11th district...
...understanding are unique. The nature of the string quartet inevitably suggests a conversation, and the Juilliard players have an agility and intelligence that pitch and color the tone of each voice to enrich the spirit of the composer. Their Mozart is 18th century parlor talk, Beethoven can sound like stentorian and political argument, Bartok and Schoenberg are full of menacing whispers and terrified screams...
...week's two most important debuts ∙Tenor Jess Thomas, 35, sang Walther in the Met's production of Die Meistersinger, and should have won a pocketful of raves. In the demanding role, his voice soared in steady flight above the stentorian heaviness of the Wagnerian orchestra: after the ardors of two long acts, he still had a great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well...
Died. George Joseph Maurer, 56, senior reading clerk of the House of Representatives since 1943, a stentorian speaker who could call the roll of 437 members in less than 20 minutes, or plow through a 90-page bill unnoticeably abridging the tedious parts; of a heart attack; in Westfield...