Word: tenoring
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...made hurly burly of economic tensions, there should still be institutions where young men with the desire to sacrifice a quick start for a wider training may have their desires fulfilled. England is just as busy as America but Oxford and Cambridge continue to pursue "the noiseless tenor of their way". Although institutions like Harvard in this country have been inoculated with the fever, they seem to be tending toward a recovery. Not yet is there much leisure for wide reading, individual thinking, or informal discussions before a fire.' But happily the time should come when those who wish primarily...
...said that "the internal disruption of Germany which we had all along feared, but which we had consistently been told to regard as a bogy ... is not merely an ominous political symptom; it has pretentious economic significance, for it means the ultimate disappearance of the debtor himself." The tenor of his speech was distinctly anti-French, a fact which caused Lloyd George's heart to rejoice and M. Poincare's hair to rise in anger. He said that Britain awaited French proposals relative to a common policy to be pursued against Germany, because Britain cannot be ignored...
Then he gained his post in the Mayor's office. The salary was moderate. The prices of the singing lessons that he continued to take were high and he had to support a mother and several younger children. His ambition increased. He met Lauri-Volpi, Metropolitan Opera Company tenor. This artist gave him intoxicating phrases of encouragement. But what was there for him to do when he had no money...
...with the hard labor of the small farm-holding Negroes of the South. His parents owned a small piece of cotton land. The boy and his brother ploughed, chopped cotton, picked cotton. In time he contrived to work his way through Fiske University at Nashville. He had a pleasant tenor voice. He undertook vocal studies. He made a little reputation and began his professional career with a recital at Symphony Hall, Boston, in 1918. But the U. S. is not partial to artists who are black of skin. Hayes went to Europe to continue his career and Europe gave...
...from the outside through visits such as the recent one of the Moscow Art Players. The cinema, too, has improved with performances like "Scaramouche", and "The Hunch back of Notre Dame", adapted from novels of proved worth. "Chauve-Souris" and "Loyalties" are only unusually good example of the recent tenor of productions and the critic who is fair enough to realize this will, instead of joining the vulgus in deploring the decadence of the American stage, look to the future with high hopes...