Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience enters and the theatre fills with the sweet confusion of an orchestra tuning up, there are no musicians in the pit. As the curtains part, a huge symphony orchestra appears hazily, on the screen. Before it steps a thin, grinning, bald-headed man. He introduces himself as Deems Taylor, welcomes the audience, on behalf of Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, to "an entirely new form of entertainment." When he finishes, Leopold Stokowski himself, his back to the audience, steps into the picture, raises his arms, and the great orchestra swirls into Bach's D Minor Toccata and Fugue...
...Pressing last September corralled another batch of earnest mediums, went to the Buffalo, N. Y. offices of Transtudio Corp., a commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While sympathetic listeners urged him on by exclaiming "Isn't he a dear, the sweet thing," Sir Arthur announced through an earthly middleman that he was happy to send a message to "peaceful America," wound up: "Not so very long ago that great and noble worker Sir Oliver Lodge joined us on this side. Perhaps under similar conditions he too will be able to deliver...
...King Porter (Bunny Berigan featured on both sides); Bugle Call Rag (with some terrific Goodman clarinet); Roll 'Em (arranged by Mary Lou Williams, one of the first boogie-woogie orchestrations). By the trio: Body and Soul (with one of Teddy Wilson's best choruses); China Boy. By the Quartet: Sweet Georgia Brown...
...pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that is a curse of kings...
...Ulster village of Donaghreagh in some sweet pre-Hitlerian period, the plot poses the daughter of a greengrocer with the question of choosing between a young Presbyterian minister and a would-be competitor of her father...