Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President addressed the Association of National Advertisers, meeting in Washington (see p. 48). Some listeners thought they detected a trace of banter in his voice as he said: "Advertising . . . certainly is the vocal organ by which industry sings its songs of beguilement. . . . You have stirred the lethargy of the old law of supply and demand. . . . You also contribute to hurry up the general use of every discovery in science and every invention in industry. . . . Your latest contribution to constructive joy is to make possible the hourly spread of music, entertainment and political assertion to the radio sets...
...loyalties, although Memorial hall, which symbolized some of them, seems to have faded out of the uses of the university. Older Harvard men found something worthly in the tablets of its transept, but probably the editors of the Crimson would be bored. The young liberals are naturally the most vocal of student groups and may give an impression of a university which its normal thought does not support, but the impression is created of immaturity manifest as snobbery. If it should be a reflection of an entire student body it would question the worth of the contribution to citizenship later...
...busy city street is one of the most exciting things in the modern cinema. It is not, of course, humor that makes crowds roar and shriek as they watch him, but his antics inspire a contraction of the muscles of the diaphragm just as humor does, with the same vocal results. The skyscraper episodes in Feet First are more elaborate than in Safety Last, which he made seven years ago; there are times when even a seasoned Lloyd addict does not want to look at him, as when, having at last reached the top of the building and sniffed...
Saturday afternoon, with the Harvard football team poised for a try at the hieing point, a crescendo of "block that kick" swept over one side of the stadium. The only element of surprise in this tradition of footballmania was that the vocal effort came from men, themselves undergraduates at Harvard. Add to this the fact that the small colorful team from William and Mary was cheered consistently throughout the game by the University spectators, that on one occasion the referee was roundly hissed when he called a penalty against the Southerners at a rather crucial point, and the display offers...
...distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought to fame when she popularized the Parisian songlet Si Tu Vois Ma Tante...