Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Bragg '41 almost succeeded in copying Frankie Trambauer's alto sax solo on "singing the Blues" but lost himself half way through. Jack Harlow fared better with Bix's trumpet solo, only to mar an otherwise good performance with a cloudy tone, not at all representative of Beiderbecks...
...change of tone was immediately apparent. A. F. of L.'s Woll, Bates & Rickert consented to debate John Lewis' idea along with "any other suggestions." Because Miners Lewis and Murray had to attend U. M. W.'s annual contract negotiations, the peace talks were shifted to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. While reporters pitched pennies at a line in the corridor (chief winner: A. F. of L.'s Press Agent Phil Pearl) the negotiators in Room 105 wrangled for five hours., consumed $11.90 worth of sandwiches, coffee and milk. The results were inconclusive but the conferences...
...Paderewski, TIME, Feb. 27, p. 47. "A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as 'touch' in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: 'Art is a question of personality...
...baby's bottom in picture by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) which had been painted over in prudish generations. "Patina," he snorted, "used to be bought by the Belgian State for 100 francs a bottle. . . . It's called that 'Old Gold' tone. Pfui...
...naked name: Charles Atlas), mailorder musclebuilder. Their orders: that he stop using the word "free" in connection with a ten-volume Sex Encyclopedia offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with all the important work I got to do in the world...