Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two theories of how vowel sounds are made: 1) that the vocal cords vibrate, like rubbed violin strings; 2) that, like blowing a whistle or across a bottle mouth, puffs of air from the vocal cords excite resonances in the head cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, sinuses). To confirm one or the other theory, Lee Edward Travis of University of Iowa's Psychopathic Hospital and Archibald R. Buchanan of the Department of Anatomy, cut the heads from a couple of dead men, suspended the heads by wires from a ceiling and up through the severed necks blew puffs...
...ballroom of the Commander Hotel the Instrumental Clubs will give their annual. Cambridge concert this evening. Selections by an improved Gold Coast Orchestra will feature the performance, while several numbers by the Mandolin, Banjo, and Vocal Clubs will complete the program. The Clubs have been working on a good many new pieces this fall and their repertoire has been increased to a large extent. After the performance there will be dancing in the ballroom, to the accompaniment of the Gold Coast Orchestra...
Many an uneasy debutant has blurred the beginning of his Town Hall recital. Singer Smith attacked his first notes so nervously and late that he had to signal to the orchestra to start over again. But with his second attempt he had mastered his vocal powers like a seasoned artist. Manfully he proceeded to display a firm, dark-hued tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle...
Singer Smith's selections called for no fancy, bravura vocalizing. He sang two simple folk songs-"The Sidewalks of New York" and "The Bowery"-and so far as his audience was concerned his vocal shortcomings were more than atoned for by his obvious sincerity of purpose. Be fore he had finished he had everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved...
Malcolm Holmes 2G will play several selections on the violin and the remainder of the program will be filled with numbers by the Vocal, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs. Although no final decision has been made yet as to what the selections are that the Mandolin Club will play, it is understood that their program will include the waitz "Destinie", "Jalousie", and the "Polish Dance." The Banjo Club will render "The Twelfth Street Rag", "Under the Double Eagle," and "At a Georgia Camp Meeting...