Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most understandable were Grainger's Colonial Song, and his eternally rollicking Shepherd's Hey. So many composers are so unfalteringly dedicated to the sombre and tragic that many listeners find genuine relief in the sunniness of Percy's music, even though it often dances on undeniably wooden .boots...
...choicest superlatives in praise of the rotund personality of Balieff and the magnificently foolish or beautiful performance of his company. The fragments which have made up the repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul: by Anton Chekov", the weary, straining rhythm of the Velga boat song,--these and a thousand others are cherished memories for the tens...
Andrew W. Mellon: "The will of one S. Harry Smith, War veteran, was made public. To me, he has bequeathed the wooden leg given him by the Government for the loss of his own leg at St. Mihiel. Friends of Mr. Smith said he resented a recent action of my Department in reducing his compensation...
...wants to, play with such solid gravity that he has been appointed honorary organist to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and that he holds his active post at New York's Church of St. Francis Xavier. He showed how even the deepest-throated diapasons and most wooden bourdons can be made to sparkle under a rhythmic, bouncing, lively touch. His name is Pietro, remember...
...automatic tennis coaching machine is now being constructed at the Divinity Courts. It is in the form of a rectangular court 45 feet long with dirt foundation and a wooden partition eight feet high...