Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most incongruous feature of opera-of all arts the most, wooden-is to watch ponderous paunchy bravos woo and buss great overstuffed divas whilst golden notes soar sonorously. Last week, when John Forsell, onetime (1909-10) baritone with Manhattan's Metropolitan, now chief of Stockholm's Royal Opera House, ordered all his bulky singers to reduce, U. S. operagoers were grateful to him for articulating what had been often thought but seldom said. Fat Swedish stars protested, saying that bulk aids musical beauty and that they sing best when they are well fed. But the order remained...
...farm outside of the city, tries out new tools with a skill learned on his father's truck farm. Speaking of the merger, he said: "While no two of the companies manufacture the same product, nearly all the tools made by them are composed of steel heads and wooden handles, and the processes of manufacture are similar...
...wooden haft) with a seven-centi-metre steel point...
...outbreak of the War, the narrator-hero of Wooden Swords was just finishing his military service, comfortably suffering from an imaginary ailment in the comparatively restful infirmary. Mobilization cured him. Sent to Rheims as part of a convoy to a supply train, he and a comrade managed to slip by the sentries into the Cathedral. Soon German shells began to burst in the ruined nave. Said his comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes...
...Wooden Swords, Author Deval's first novel, is the July choice of the Literary Guild...