Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the address C. M. Hastings '25, one of the baritone soloists of the University Glee Club, will give several vocal selections...
Senator Curtis (Kan.), Republican whip, has accepted the job of mapping out changes in the rules which will save printers' ink, vocal chords and public patience. He admits the job is a hard one, but is less pessimistic than his associates...
...final two hours on Sunday morning were eminently characteristic of the temper of the two bodies. In the House, the scene of prize-fights and vaudeville repartee, Republican made love to Democrat and vice versa, while the Marine Band played and various members rendered vocal selections. The Senate was--the Senate. To the very end partisan, snapped at partisan and the body finally disbanded without even the usual vote of thanks to the presiding officers. So died the Sixty-seventh Congress, just as it had lived...
...called " filibuster." Any senator can speak on any subject at any time at any length; nothing can stop him but physical exhaustion. Friends and foes of the measure regard a filibuster as a sporting proposition. The object of the supporting side is to find a strategic error in the vocal armor of the filibusterers and obtain the floor to bring the measure to a vote. That happened several years ago to Senator LaFollette, who, after talking 18 hours, lost the floor and saw the bill passed in five minutes...
Ganna Walska McCormack, before making vocal advances to audiences in New York and Chicago, gave Detroit a taste of her quality. Here are some comments, taken at random from the Detroit press: "But she has not much of a voice "; "a woman of courage"; "nasal squeaks"; "sad, hopeful, handsome, ambitious, incompetent artist"; "program was mercifully brief"; "sincere worker in the field of art." Mme. Walska explains that she does not take Detroit critics seriously. Her Chicago debut has been indefinitely postponed...