Word: crescendo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glenn Miller attributes his crescendo to the "juke box." which retails recorded music at 5? a shot in bars, restaurants and small roadside dance joints, and has become the record industry's biggest customer (TIME, Sept. 4). Of the twelve to 24 discs in each of today's 300,000 U. S. juke boxes, from two to six are usually Glenn Miller...
...play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said for it. was another affirmation that the world still looked to Paris...
...plebiscite (meaning the probable displacement of Generalissimo Franco); 3) that the liquidation of the war be accompanied without persecution so that all Spaniards could join in reconstruction. On the other hand, Generalissimo Franco, answering inquiries from London and Paris, was reported to have demanded unconditional surrender. Despite the crescendo of peace reports, it seemed more than likely that Dr. Negrin and his loyal ministers would soon transfer the Government back to Madrid or Valencia. They had nothing to gain by surrendering, little to lose personally by fighting. The Madrid-Valencia area could not be expected to hold out long against...
...have been doing in the movies ever since the first Dawn Patrol was made eight years ago. Nonetheless, by the time Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Lieutenant Scott (David Niven) have shared their last toast and their last battle, audiences are likely to feel that the familiar sound-track crescendo of zooming motors and breaking bottles has rarely been heard to better effect...
...notes (of the victrola) swelled, the dull aurora on the horizon pulsed and quickened and draped itself into arches and fanning beams which reached across the sky until at my zenith the display attained its crescendo. The music and the night became one; and I told myself that all beauty was akin and sprang from the same substance...