Word: tenoritis
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...Passion Sunday (April 2) at Rockefeller Center. An honorary committee of the familiar Catholic-Protestant-Jew type would be arranged (Morgan J. O'Brien, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Henry Morgenthau). Alfred Emanuel Smith, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman and Dr. Alexander Lyons would be speakers representing the three faiths. Tenor John McCormack, who sang at Dublin's Eucharistic Congress last year and who last week was awarded Notre Dame's prized Laetare Medal (annual, for distinguished Roman Catholic laymen), would sing Cesar Franck's Panis Angelicas. And President Roosevelt would speak, perhaps in person, surely by radio...
Awarded. To tenor John McCormack; the Laetare Medal, Notre Dame University's annual award to a Catholic layman. To Dr. Frank Harold Spedding, 30, of the University of California: the Langmuir $1,000 award for promising young chemists; for discerning the arrangement and behavior of atoms in solids...
...Pontiac Motor Car hour Engineer William Shearer is the juggler who balances the comical dialog of Stoopnagle & Budd with a big mixed chorus; makes wee Jeannie Lang, a whispering soprano, sound as effective as William O'Neal, a full-blown tenor...
House Dinners are a little more socially enlivening than would be expected, but a visit to the common room after almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...
...perhaps, can one blame the old lady, for the complicated framework of "Wien, du Stadt der Lieder" is such that she could hardly be expected to follow the intricate love problems of Steffi, a Viennese shopgirl, who is almost cast into the willing arms of the almost rich tenor butcher only to be rescued for her unemployed musician by the discovery that there was a mistake in the numbers of the lottery tickets, which makes the course of true love lead to a proper ending on rails of gold...