Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throats make better music than wet harps. Prince Maelgwn Gwynedd of Wales found this out in the 6th century after his vocalists and harpists had swum a river. Thereat he proclaimed the supremacy of vocal music. Ever since that time Welshmen have congregated for Eisteddfodau (music festivals which are also contests...
Hiccough is produced by spasms of the diaphragm and simultaneous closing of the vocal apparatus, the glottis, in the larynx. As breath is sucked into the lungs, it breaks through the closed glottis and produces the queer sounds of hiccough...
...Irish-Creole girl of New Orleans, originally named Dolores McCord, she paraded down the main street of Galveston in the first crinoline that town ever saw. Her charms thus enhanced induced old Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein...
...speech held in his left hand. This mishap prevented a broadcast of his words. Suddenly the East Room air began to rumble with sound as distracted radio announcers substituted for the President, read his speech to their audiences. President Hoover's low voice was swallowed up in the vocal confusion...
...leadership of J. B. Cowin '32 will play, among other numbers, Brahms' Hungarian Dance and Baynes Destiny Waltz. This will be followed by Officer of the Day and a Football Medley by the Banjo Club with W. S. Warner '32 conducting. A. H. Parker '32 will direct the Vocal Club in singing Bullard's Winter Song and German's Rolling Down...