Word: sunkenness
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...duets with itself will next November join that operatic zoo which includes the lyrical Forest Bird and the Dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series of native U. S. operas, it will be presented by students of Manhattan...
...Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park fortnight ago Navajo Indians were giving a tribal fire dance. One interested spectator was a very tall, very thin man with bright deep-sunken eyes. Beside him stood the manager of a bus company. Suddenly the bus manager clapped his hand to his right side, groaned in agony, collapsed. The tall thin man had him removed to an emergency hospital nearby, tapped his abdomen, announced crisply: "Appendix. We'll have to operate at once. Not a moment to lose...
...Bowers Momsen and in England R. H. Davis have each invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece. Connecting mouthpiece and tank is a stout tube. Thus a man escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there has been no U. S. submarine catastrophe to give it vital testing. And for the Davis...
...mining communities of America might attract attention by changing their names to ones suitable to their conditions. We suggest the following: Bare Creek, Empty Dinner Pail, Starving Children, Ragtown, Tattered Clothes, Hooverhit, Jobless, Empty Belly, Depression, Moaning Widows, Too-Weak-to-Weep, Turnip-greens, Nogrub, Patches, Mounting Debts, Sunken Eyes, Hollow Cheeks, Hungry Guts, Rickets, Scurvy, Pellagra, Last...
Legend has peopled the centre of the Abode of Loneliness-half again as large as France-with the remnant of a race whose mighty civilization long ago was overthrown, buried by the shifting sand. Scientific speculation has long visualized there a central, sunken oasis capable of sustaining life. Midway of his 58-day trek, Explorer Thomas crossed deep caravan tracks. He learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds...