Word: tenore
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...superiors had no objections. After the war he wrote a book called The Service of Supply in which he minced no words, spared no names, and failed to ask the War Department's permission to publish it. The Inspector General called the volume "unmilitary in tone and tenor and at times intemperate in both. . . . Among the uninformed it will bring ridicule upon the War Department." Also unmilitary in tone was an annual report General Hagood was once supposed to have written: "Nothing to report...
...maximum power. Very tamely indeed Le Journal's revelations coupled Adolf Hitler's name with Jenny Hang, his chauffeur's sister; Erna Hanfstaengl, sister of his friend "Putzy"; Frau Winifred Wagner, widowed daughter-in-law of the composer; Margaret Slezak, daughter of a Viennese tenor; the Realmleader's late niece Greta Granbald; and the German cinema's lithe-limbed Leni Riefenstahl, who was quoted as having said with utmost respect of Adolf Hitler, "The Realmleader could not love except platonically." (TIME...
...Linaker and Ricardo Cortez do their best to make a second rate murder picture. "the Mystery of Dr. Harrigan," take a mildly gruesome and gently thrilling tenor. One cannot, however, work up much of a lather over this murder of an unpopular M.D. in a private hospital...
...tunes most played on the air. Sheet sales have dropped 95% since their peak in early January. To most radio addicts, overfamiliarity has made the song something in the nature of an auditory emetic. Consequently, the impressive sequence in which Farley & Riley, then a German comedian, then an operatic tenor, then the star of the picture and finally the whole audience in a theatre sing the song can scarcely be classed as a happy inspiration...
...Philadelphia's Little Italy some 20 years ago there was a small, shabby theatre where neighbors dropped in to see a bit of drama, a bit of clowning and got for good measure a dash of grand opera. The impresario was Ferruccio Giannini, a tenor who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. At home the Gianninis made music all the time. The mother Antoinetta played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Vittorio played the piano. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made...