Word: yodel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elkhart, Kan., the Singing Masters' Association convened for a "sing," tried to yodel, couldn't, was forced to abandon efforts for two hours. Cause: Too much fried chicken had been devoured prior to the songfest...
...Teatro Colon is no ordinary South-American opera house, such a dirty and pretentious little place as is to be found in almost every town, full of onion-eating opera lovers gazing at tenors who yodel and choke. El Teatro Colon is an enormous building of marble and white cement, facing a palmed piazza. In it there is room for 3,500 people to sit; these all come invariably in evening dress...
Naughty Riquette. Into some nonsense about a naughty Parisian telephone operator who proves in Monte Carlo that she is honest, the Shuberts have cast two capable performers. Mitzi, light-footed, long-haired, emerges from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers...
...country seemed to go quietly about its business. Optimists did not find it necessary to yodel glad tidings from the housetops nor yet to whistle in the dark. No "boom" was on, but pessimism was conspicuously dormant. The measure of distribution-car loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...
...whom a property table, reinforced with iron struts, trembled, creaked, tottered. These idealists, holds Madame Leginska, should be placated. Hence, in her forthcoming opera, there will be two complete casts-one of voiceless actors who will elegantly posture and grimace on the stage, one of unseen singers, who will yodel from a pit, concealed with the instruments of the orchestra. Said she: "Why should a man be exhibited on the stage, throwing out his arms and legs in the. stilted fashion of bygone times just because he can sing? For my opera, I want good actors on the stage good...