Word: vocalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever weary Congress adjourns, most of its members will hotfoot for home not only for vacation but also to stump their bailiwicks for reelection. With Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt as vocal as ever, wives of Congressmen have apparently begun to feel they should follow her example. This week, despite elaborate attempts at secrecy, it leaked out that a number of them have been taking elocution lessons so they will be ready when asked to say a few words "back home." Conducted by Mrs. Hugh Butler, long a teacher of public speaking at George Washington University, the classes have been held weekly...
MARC BLITZSTEIN: THE CRADLE WILL ROCK (Piano and vocal chorus; Musicraft: 14 parts). Musical highlights...
...second. Brother Ferdinand himself had 17 children. This family fecundity, denied natural expression in Composer Franz Peter, found its outlet in an extraordinary musical fertility. Schubert, who died at the age of 31, was the most prolific first-rate composer who ever lived. Besides symphonies, choral works, masses, vocal duos, songs with instrumental accompaniment and a huge stack of miscellaneous chamber music, he wrote an average of nearly two songs for every week of his adult life...
Tracing the concessions of the Czechoslovakian government to the increasing vocal German minority, 80 percent of which is controlled by the Sudoten German party, Marx declared that the demands of Henlein for a "state within a state" may indicate that Henlein himself does not want a mutually satisfactory agreement...
...Canadians are the big attraction, and rightly so. Giving generously of their wares, they occupy a very pleasant hour with some fifteen numbers including "Ten Pretty Girls," "Whistle While You Work," and "Tippy Tin." Morover, they add finishing touches to the vaudeville numbers, and, except when they enter the vocal realm, go over with a resounding bang. When the "sweetest music this side of heaven" fades away, the stage is taken over by Donald Duck, who has a hilarious time with an omniverous ostrich, and by William Powell and Annabella, who in spite of the fantastic plot of "The Baroness...