Word: tenoritis
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THESE ERRORS OF FACT, GLARING AS THEY ARE, ARE NOT THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGE WHICH CAN BE LEVELED AT THIS ARTICLE. THAT CHARGE IS THE ACCUSATION, IMPLICIT IN THE SUBHEAD AND GENERAL TENOR OF YOUR STORY, THAT THESE MEN ARE SEEKING AN EASY, WELL-PAID REFUGE FROM DANGER AND FROM THEIR DUTY TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY...
...Francisco. As the ship rocked and pitched in the tremendous currents from the gorge, the first strains of Christmas carols began to penetrate the static of our tight earphones. We could make out a beautiful chorus of clear, feminine sopranos. The static cleared away briefly and a ringing male tenor took up Come, All Ye Faithful. Then there was an organ, and after that the entire chorus joined him. After that there was some news and a commentator telling how we were winning the war. We didn't listen to that...
...actor, Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura does not know his own strength. Last summer in an outdoor performance of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, vigorous Kiepura acted so hard in the third act quarrel scene that he knocked handsome Contralto Gladys Swarthout cold. That gave somebody's pressagent an idea...
...charity, opera's Tenor Jan Kiepura, Contralto Coe Glade, Basso Douglas Beattie pulled Salvation Army caps down over their identities, stood on a busy Chicago street corner for ten minutes and gave out with song. (Kiepura hummed in somewhat uncharitable economy of his voice.) The melody was golden, but the take was only $2. "It wasn't bad," said Beattie afterwards, "considering the fact that people walking by on the street are intent on other things...
...deny that Bridges is an alien. That is a matter of record. But the Communistic tenor of his ideas still has not been proved. Dean Landis of the Law School said Bridges was not a Communist; Attorney General Biddle said he was and ordered his deportation. Now the issue lies before the courts. Blackstone once expressed the principle that a man is innocent until proved guilty. Perhaps the Legion does not believe in following the English common law. After all, it isn't American...