Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the scheme which was originated last spring, the Instrumental Clubs will be divided into four divisions, the Banjo Club, the Mandolin Club, the Vocal Club, and the Specialty Division. Each of these divisions is directed by a leader and a committee chosen by members and candidates. In the trials, in order to secure the greatest possible accuracy in each case, each applicant will be judged separately by each division, whether he intends to take part in the work of that particular unit...
...Vocal Club to be Kept Small...
...Tiny Herman did not rise again until the referee's arm had marked off ten strophes. Had Negro Harry Wills, Dempsey's Nemesis, appeared before the Vernon crowd in tuxedo or barrelhouse cutaway, it is quite possible that the gathering would have favored him with the same vocal bludgeonings that the Los Angeles group bestowed upon the Champion, for Wills is reputed to be dodging Godfrey even as he himself is being dodged...
...slow-stepping horses, passed with solemn unreality across the shallow scaffolding. Critics and adults cheered; the sight intrigued them; the music pleased their ears; but still the children murmured. "Where," they asked, "are the creatures which the producers assured us would take an important part in this spectacle of vocal pantalooning which, owing to their absence, seems dull to the point of fatuity? We see horses, it is true, even camels. But where are the elephants?" Alas! because of the inability of the stage to support them, there were no elephants. The disgruntled listeners were forced to remain content with...
...American Laryngological, Rhinological & Stamatological Society in Atlantic City, a man stood making an address. His voice was loud, distinct, but his lips never opened. Language issued from his head as from that of a ventriloquist's dummy. For this man, one Charles Kendrick, had no larynx, no vocal cords. These had been removed in an operation for cancer of the throat, in their place put a silver tube which emerges from the throat of Mr. Kendrick and is held in place by a neat black ribbon which passes around his neck underneath his collar. He has learned to talk...