Word: tenoritis
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...whole, the Committee feels that the TSEP (Temporary Student Employment Plan) is extraordinarily successful. . ." Such is the tenor of the Student Council's report on the employment situation as it now stands...
...year from the rug department ; Howard E. Snyder, too old now for the shipping room. Two charter sopranos have kept pace with the oldtime bassos. Sarah J. Grimes still sells hats, Anna E. Bolton was retired lately from the china department. Missing at last week's performance was Tenor Carl Kjellberg, the Chorus librarian who works in the supply room. So excited was he about the concert that he had a stroke just before the curtain rose, had to be hospitalized. While there he received a letter from Founder Towsley, who makes a practice of writing to every chorister...
...gives her a dozen orchids every day, makes her famed for her milk baths, eventually marries her. At this point, The Great Ziegfeld soars from the prose of fictionized biography into the poetry of revue. For 20 minutes, a huge revolving staircase exhibits showgirls, dancers and tableaux while a tenor sings A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody. For fabulous extravagance, this sequence makes the real Ziegfeld Follies look like a burlesque show...
...published your story anent Hal Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
Meantime Marius' household pursues its usual temperamental tenor. The five disciples hate each other, scribble notes for their forthcoming biographies (they all know Marius is dying), try to maneuver the sick man into tête-à-tête walks. Lewis, "deeply insincere," has more than one earmark of J. Middleton Murry, one of Lawrence's biographers. Others are Robert, a timid soul; his wife Hilda, who married him because Marius suggested it but who nurses a platonic passion for the Master; Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self...