Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives...
...Evanston, Ill., Northwestern-exhibiting their precious new Wildcat, highly touted Bill de Correvont, who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High two years ago-discovered that they needed more than de Correvont's swivel hips to make a bid for the Big Ten title. Against Oklahoma, Big Six champions last year, the Wildcats were stampeded...
...politician, but an ambitious careerist, Brauchitsch had studied hard during the years he spent in a swivel chair. He mastered his own specialty, artillery, then went on to pore over the more theoretical aspects of warfare. He became a firm believer in a strong defense as a prelude to any kind of warfare, and, with Adolf Hitler's, his eyes were turned to the East as the next battleground for the Reich...
...call of the swivel chair and big buzzers with buttons once again proves more potent than the excitement of the courtroom or the harrowing drama of the country doctor's life as the Senior class plumps for business as an intended vocation over law and medicine...
...fallen ramparts. Somewhere a housewife will wipe her red hands upon her apron and smile down at the first bewildering crocus. Along Marlborough Street the neat old gentlemen will have belatedly hung up their Chesterfields and derbies. Somewhere, yes. But here? Here there is a terrifying notice posted. So swivel your eyes and your thoughts back to this book, Vag. The notice say: "Regular meetings in all courses will conclude...