Word: throatedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wave of Shame. In the shocked silence that followed, Detective Underwood scurried back to his home in nearby Cleveland, Miss. Sheriff Marshall cleared his throat embarrassedly, said: "I don't know what I could do to Underwood. As for Sheffield, he's only been with the office a few months." But then the storm broke and the whole ugly story came out. A doctor reported that all four Negroes had been brutally beaten across the buttocks; two were unable to return to work after they were released from jail. Galloway was sent to the hospital ("I told them...
...tremendous amount of tone. Well, you know what? When I push, it gets ugly, out of focus. I say to myself, 'Watch it, Mario; it's blurred.' I have an ear. I know. Tito Schipa said to me, 'Mario, you have the greatest given throat ever heard in a young man. Take care of it.' I am taking care...
...performers. Then came a chance for an audition before Sergeant Peter Lind Hayes, the nightclub and TV comic, who was traveling through to recruit performers for an Army Air Force show, On the Beam. In spite of his rare protective talents as a chowhound and goldbrick, Lanza's throat was so raw with Texas dust that he could not sing. Silver, who was already selected for the show, devised a ruse: he put Lanza's name on a label and pasted it on a homemade recording (taken from a radio broadcast) of the Met's Tenor Frederick...
...years-ever since Gigli!" sobbed Maestro Rosati. For 15 months, under Rosati and with help from Teacher Grant Garnell, Lanza buckled down to work. He even learned something he had always shirked: how to read music. Finally, he could sing concerts again without nervousness tightening his throat; his reputation and fees began to rise. One of his first big dates was at Chicago's Grant Park before a summer crowd of 55,000. The next night, after the Chicago Tribune headlined, "LANZA BORN TO SING," on its front page, he drew 76,000 people in spite of rain...
Crowds yelled "Ahy Makki" ("Oh, you Makki"). A man with a butcher knife slit the throat of a trussed-up bull to show that Makki was truly welcome. Makki, briskly stepping over a pool of blood, got into a baby blue Oldsmobile convertible. Drums began to pound and blood crimsoned the car's whitewall tires...