Word: tenorizing
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...URGENTLY PROTEST THE TENOR OF YOUR JUNE 2 ARTICLE ON THE GERMAN WAR PRISONERS AT SPANDAU REFERENCE TO THESE MEN AS "SEVEN OF THE BLACKEST NAZIS STILL ALIVE" IS CONTRARY TO FACT, BIASED, AND SERVES TO PREJUDICE THE PENDING APPEALS FOR THESE MEN. RUDOLF HESS TOOK POSITIVE ACTION FOR PEACE EARLY IN WORLD WAR II. GRAND ADMIRAL DOENITZ AND ADMIRAL RAEDER WERE COURAGEOUS NAVAL LEADERS. BARON VON NEURATH, ALBERT SPEER, WALTER FUNK AND BALDUR VON SCHIRACH WERE FAITHFUL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS. ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING...
...only casualty was Tenor Kurt Baum of the Metropolitan Opera, who sang the young lover Arnoldo; on Tell's opening night, his voice cracked on some nearly impossible high notes, and before long had the hypercritical Italian audience jeering. Said a theater official, mopping his neck between acts: "There is always an atmosphere of the battlefield about our performances, but this is the most ferocious audience I have seen in 30 years...
...agreed, and tossed out a challenge: "You will see the most wonderful lungs you have ever seen . . . I can hold my breath longer than anyone else at the Metropolitan. What's more I can sing [a continuous perfect high note] for 13 seconds without taking in more air." Tenor Jan Peerce countered with his boast: "I can hold my breath one minute and 13 seconds with my mouth full of pebbles." Basso Norman Scott said he could better Peerce by at least one second, and the contest was on. Winner: Scott with a time of one minute, three seconds...
...effort to change the tenor of German textbooks on U.S. history, Hans Kohn, professor of History, joined a delegation that began a ten day conference with representatives of over eight European nations at Brunswick, Germany, yesterday...
...like his brother Rodolfo, now dead, was born as a result of the great Caruso's grand passion with Soprano Ada Giachetti. Although Tenor Caruso never married Ada, he recognized the two boys as his own sons, thus gave them a legal status in the eyes of Italian...