Word: tremolos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listeners, however, a third man in Box 44 is synonymous with opera itself. He is 42-year-old Milton John Cross, a huge, humble, bespectacled, music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners hear a tremolo of anticipation when Milton Cross's bated, bass-viol voice tells them: "The house lights are being dimmed. In a moment the great gold curtain will...
...fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem? Was the piano out o tune? Most emphatically not! It was simply that certain unnamed but fuzzy-bearded individuals were engaged in peeling hair off their respected chins with (O shame of shames) electric razors...
Coriolanus since 1885. The play has never prospered in the theatre because, while it has high temperatures of rage and subnormal chills of scorn, it seldom strikes the 98.6° of ordinary human emotion. But what Broadway saw last week was a story which, though it lacks tremolo, shrills along as vibrant and masculine as a trumpet call...
...peculiar memorial to the late George Gershwin appeared last week in the form of a record made in England by Columbia. Gershwin-King of Rhythm is distinguished by sweet & low singing of The Man I Love by Hildegarde, tremolo rendering of a Gershwin tune on the harmonica by Larry Adler, and the cultivated, funereal tones of an English master of ceremonies paying tribute to the composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events...
Wilhelm Kohlhass, in his novel The Officer and the Republic, thrills Nazis with this mystic description of how an ideal young German officer speaks: "His voice had the right tremolo for midnight excitement, the fortunes of Pride and defiance of Death: the jubilant joy of Death with the Weapon in one's hand...