Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...darn lucky I was there," declared Klotz last night. "I would have hated to see all that construction work go to waste. Even Widener may have burned up except...
...opening offering for the 1940 radio season, will revive Mozart's Marriage of Figaro on Saturday afternoon. If everything goes as well as it did last year when the opera was played, Saturday afternoon should be a treat, something to stay home and hug the radio for. Except for a tendency toward low comedy in their productions last year, the Met put on as delightful a performance of Mozart as any within memory. 'The Marriage of Figaro, of course, in its original form was Beaumarchais' virulent satire on the French nobility.' If Da Ponte, Mozart's incompetent librettist...
...Doctors have never taken much stock in antiseptic gargles except as soothers. In fact, many consider plain hot water just as good as a fancy mixture. Last fortnight the Lancet reported a "totally unexpected" indictment of aspirin gargles. Quoting laboratory studies, they reported that "appreciable quantities of the calcium of the teeth go into solution when an aspirin gargle is used. . . . Over a number of years [the gargle] might well result in permanent damage to the teeth." However, the Lancet added, the teeth are unharmed if equal quantities of bicarbonate of soda are dissolved with aspirin...
...there isn't anything to say about it. It doesn't show much originality on the part of the composer, and seldom affords much inspiration to the band that plays it. On the other hand, it's difficult to put your finger on anything really bad about the record, except possibly the lack of originality. However, in my mind, an overdose of riff tunes will generally have a discouraging effect on jazz musicians. Any competent arranger can pick up a few old blues licks and build a tune around them, and a competent band will play it and the Andrews...
...friend of mine in high-school once had the habit of peppering his exampapers with little academic witticisms, (partly in order to raise his grade). He got one paper back totally uncorrected, except for the single terse remark: "Clover--but not true." This one phrase well strikes the effect of the Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times...