Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perfect Figaro. These vocal varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...
...Bevin, a brown hulk between his Russian adversary and his American friend, Stettinius, staring down the line of his cigarette at the table, or when he spoke as no diplomat in his time had publicly spoken, revolving his great, unhandsome head as though it were a vocal beacon...
...party's strongman is a onetime oilfield mechanic, stocky Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka (party name "Wies-law"), 41, who says: "We are carrying out a revolution. ... In the interests of democracy, order and also expediency, we must accommodate open vocal opposition. It will be much more dangerous if we suppress...
...done in a novel about the egotistic child of a lucky star, Goethe, and in an essay about the colossal loutishness of Tolstoy's moralism. It follows that my reverence for the intimates of Hell, the devout and the diseased, is fundamentally much deeper-and only therefore less vocal-than my reverence for the sons of light...
Ever since war's end, a vocal group of U.S. oilmen has urged that the war-built Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines should either be shut down or converted to carry natural gas. Reason: the oilmen have heavy investments in tankers, which might find it hard to compete with the pipelines in carrying oil from Texas...