Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enrico Caruso made his dazzling international reputation in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. The son of a wine-swilling Neapolitan mechanic, he started as one of the many bush-league Italian tenors of the '90s with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not for several years did he discover his golden tenor range and enormous volume. And even with these assets, his Metropolitan debut in 1903 was no smash. Critics found his acting inferior and his vocal style coarser than that of his great, aristocratic predecessor, Jean de Reszke...
...high period of poster art was celebrated last week in Manhattan. Hanging on the Norlyst Gallery walls were some 37 of the bold-hued works which peeled off Parisian litho-stones in the '80s and '90s and plastered the boulevard kiosks of those gaudy decades...
...Arab idea was started in the '90s to extend the authority of the Ottoman Empire, revived by Lawrence of Arabia in World War I to win the Arabs for the Allies, squelched by the postwar mandate system...
...19th Century, when an Italian named Donati made a turnip-shaped flute of baked clay with eight finger holes. He subsequently killed himself by falling off a balcony. Perfected by a German wagon maker named Heinrich Fiehn, Donati's invention became the rage of Vienna in the '90s. The very finest ocarinas were manufactured from the mud of the beautiful blue Danube...
Died. Amos Rusie, 71, sensational "fastball" pitching star of the '90s; in Seattle. His fans claimed he merely went through the motions of pitching sometimes, and nobody but the catcher was the wiser. Pitching for the New York Giants, he struck out 345 batters in 1890, when the foul-strike rule had not yet been made; but he handed out 276 bases on balls the same season. In his first four years with the Giants he pitched 224 games, won 132 of them, moved the team from last to second place in the National League. He ruined...