Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quite Necessary?" Both Adenauer, in his smooth and sibilant manner, and Schumacher, in his sharp and strident way, railed at Allied "interference" in German affairs and especially at dismantling of German industrial plants. One-armed, one-legged Schumacher had to be helped up onto the rostrum (see cut), but his rhetoric was as vigorous as ever. Cried he last week: "The Allies have no right to condemn the entire German people because of Naziism. All European nations were for a time Nazi followers. Western EuroDe continued to conclude treaties with Hitler at a period when hundreds of thousands of German...
Dead Cherokee. Essentially, the show is a platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...
...Wanted (Emerald; Film Classics), as its strident advertisements declaim, is the story of an unwed mother. Ordinarily, when a movie tackles such a delicate subject, it strangles on sobs and special pleading or is scissored to death by censorship. As produced by a new independent unit, organized by Cinemactress Ida Lupino and husband Collier Young, it emerges as an earnest and unadorned account of a tragic problem...
From a spectator point of view this Friday will be a whirling day of almost strident gayety. There will be long-limbed, sun-tanned girls with young men in straw hats. There will be mountains of cans of the amber pinnacle of the brewmasters' art and the ice cooled mixture of gin and olive--with just a touch of vermouth. There will be yachts and pennants and drunken old reads and drunken old blues and sports writers will duly notate the proceedings and dutifully record the color of New London on race...
...Hill, is not cut from the same hearty fabric as were its illustrious predecessors from the country. Though it contains in its cast two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Gino Cervi, their talents can do little to redeem a weak and confusing plot, poor photography, a strident musical score, and the general low quality of the film...