Word: tenoritis
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When the bullfrog learns to sing tenor...
...John McCormack, tenor, frequently orders a new set of his own phonograph records...
...drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were." When he is in a tight fix, Mr. Interlocutor blandly and sonorously announces a rendition by our silver-voiced tenor, or an original specialty by our own little Mr. Tambo...
...short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy. One is therefore the more surprised that he produces Children and Fools, a collection of actual short stories. And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels...
Married. Lucien Muratore, 50, famed tenor, recent husband of Soprano Lina Cavalieri (whom he divorced because of her admiration for Mussolini); to Marie Therese Brissaud, 23, actress, of Paris; secretly, a month ago; at Nice...