Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More deaf people, and dumb, tried airplane rides last week to cure their deficiencies. But they got no more good than did Julius Shaefer, 10, terrified the previous week (TIME, Aug. 27). Fright or sudden air drops may temporarily help cure some cases of deafness or vocal paralysis, but not when essential nerves are dead or brain centres undeveloped...
Futile had been the attempt to cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...
...Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn a living. This she did, being of artistic inclination and equipped with some vocal talent, by singing. After making her debut with Aphrodite in Manhattan, she joined the San Carlo Opera Company, with which she sang Siebel in Faust. Later she became the understudy for more noteworthy performers; of late, a chorus girl, a hanger on at rehearsal halls and an ofttime entertainer...
...villain-Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium of the scrivener. Mr. Bowers made it a point to have his place on the program shifted to an evening hour, when more radios would be turned on. The Bowers speech began with contrasts between Abraham Lincoln and Harry Ford Sinclair...
...program will include renditions by the vocal club, the banjo club, the mandolin club, the 1931 orchestra, and the combined clubs. Several special features have also been arranged including piano solo and duet numbers, and a program by a vocal octet. The concert will be followed by dancing...