Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been raised on all sides: Has Ganna Walska a voice? The critics have replied again and again: Mme. Walska has no voice. She has some pretty but very small tones in her lower voice, good enough for small parlor singing, but her upper register is so weak and thin that when she essays the big and loud singing parts of opera she emits a shrill squeak. Nevertheless, the lady, with her enormously wealthy husband supporting her, has entered upon a new and spectacular campaign to achieve success in opera. Last season she put on several concerts in Mid-Western America...
...first scene everything went well. The soprano does not appear in that scene. Walska appeared, radiantly beautiful, in the second scene. Her voice was thin and nervous. The great aria, caro nome, came, prodigious in its demands upon the strength, purity and agility of the upper soprano voice. Walska's voice faltered badly. At the final top note she emitted a series of faint squeaks and there was silence-no tone came. The audience began to laugh. The fiasco was ghastly. Then, as throughout the rest of the opera, it was evident that Walska's top tones were...
...English literature whom, via Boswell's life, we can know as if we had met him on the street or suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian talk and incident together on a thin thread of drama and he has accomplished his end with unobtrusive canniness. Dr. Johnson's curious ménage at Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian...
...where men and women meet to discuss politics on common ground. Tennis for women is bunka, but dancing?dancing is to the Japanese too degrading to be known as bunka. Books dealing with the part women are playing in democracy are bunka novels. In other words, bunka is the thin edge of the wedge for enfranchizing the little ladies of Nippon...
...governor Allen nevertheless does not take the view that the Supreme Court's decision renders the Industrial Court powerless. Said he: " I rather expected an adverse decision because I believe when the Industrial Court took the action in question it was placing that section of the law on thin ice. . . . There was no question of emergency. The whole Kansas law was written around the emergency point. This does not take away from the Industrial Court any of its anti-picketing powers nor the power to make wage decisions in an emergency...