Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause trouble because the "regular" Republicans lack a working majority in the Senate, and because the Democrats will probably resort to political sabotage to increase their chances in the next election. But the insurgents have no panacea to offer the farmer. Nor is their voting power equal to their vocal power...
...whose Maid of Honor the Princess had been. Alexander and Catherine had three children before he married her, only six weeks after his legal consort died. The daughter who is being approached by journalist Markov is known as Princess Yourievska in London, where she has attracted attention through her vocal concerts...
Experiments at the Spring Grove Hospital, Baltimore, under William Van der Wall, Dutch musician and sociologist, and at the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, under Dr. Harold C. Cox, give promise of excellent effects on patients through " musical therapy." Phonographs, vocal and instrumental music improved the morale and the physical condition of mothers and sick children, calmed the violently insane, and stimulated melancholic cases. Music is becoming recognized as a definite adjunct of psychiatry...
...hard to see how Americanisms can be escaped. For although Dr. Van Dyke may pronounce his words perfectly, he unconsciously used the language of the people with whom he comes in contact. As he says, "English was kept alive and propagated as the hereditary language of this country by vocal...
...study of singing are praiseworthy enough-if the aspirant has any voice. In Italy, where singing is a most natural act for anyone and where music has been long established as one of the best professions, far fewer ladies study voice than here, because in Italy some show of vocal promise is regarded as a more or less necessary prelude to vocal study. Not so here. With our sublime optimism and idealism, we transcend mere physical limitations. The lofty aspiration is the thing...