Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese baby's toilet training begins at four months, and is likely to be the most painful experience of his life. He is held out over the balcony or road at frequent intervals. For every lapse, he is ferociously punished-by his mother's scoldings (in a tone of horror and disgust), by shaking, sometimes by beating. Training is made more difficult by the fact that Japanese babies are habitually overfed (which Gorer thinks may account for Japanese grownups' lack of interest in food and ability to get along on small rations). Nonetheless, a baby is almost...
...with the bells as a sort of auxiliary gift. Born of a family of talented Zvon-players, he was reared in an atmosphere of Zvon. By the time he arrived in America, he had already composed 132 symphonies for the Russian carillon, and was rumored to know by its tone each of the 4000 bells in Moscow. Saradjeff was commissioned of install the Lowell House set and to teach the art of playing them to various candidates...
...Buzz tone strictly kazoo, says Dick Stabile...
...trombone player in Earl Hines's band uses butter as a slide lubricant. 2) Saxophonist Dick Stabile dislikes a buzzy tone effect on the saxophone. 3)Give me a drink and I'll tell you everything...
...season in full swing at Mexico City's only opera house. Promised Government support for his festival had failed to materialize. One of his leading singers, Basso Carlos Rufino, had recently shot an amatory rival in a Mexico City movie theater and was giving rehearsals a discouragingly defensive tone by packing a pistol...