Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vigorous, vocal feminist (she marched in the suffragists' parade at Woodrow Wilson's inaugural), she will fight at a hat's drop for female equality in anything...
Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science in London last week up rose two of the world's most vocal thinkers to speak their minds about the press...
...Vigilant and vocal public opinion in the U.S. and Britain may force further liberalizing moves. But if the people are fooled into accepting the form for the substance, and if North Africa loses its primary importance for the U.S. and Britain as a war theater, then the extreme Right [i.e., the faction of anti-democratic Frenchmen] may have...
...large exception is Helen Traubel, a redhaired, green-eyed, 200-lb. Midwesterner who for the past four years has been singing more & more Wagnerian leads at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Rated by some critics the vocal equal of famed Kirsten Flags tad (whose roles she has inherited), Helen Traubel is far & away the finest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation, and one of the three or four finest in the world. Last week, as the Metropolitan's annual Wagner cycle came to an end, Traubel could claim an added distinction: no other U.S. soprano since Nordica had sung...
...over by her voice that he invited her to Manhattan, promptly wrote a part for her in his opera The Man without a Country. The opera 'was a flop, but Traubel stayed on in Manhattan, cooking her own meals, mending her own clothes, plugging away patiently at her vocal studies. Two years later she managed to scrape up the cash for a Town Hall debut and critics made such a fuss that the Metropolitan added her to its permanent staff...