Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago, after a long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
...born in St. Louis, raised in Indianapolis, educated in Chicago. Since childhood he speaks with a Hoosier twang, as does Anna Fishbein whom he has known since childhood. She accompanies him on all his trips around the country, and on the road acts as his personal secretary and purchasing agent (ties, shirts...
Albert and Anna Howard Fellowship of $1,000, for advanced study of the ancient Greeks and Romans, divided between John R. Grant 1G, of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, and William L. Grant, of Victoria...
...Outstanding was a tight, minutely painted portrait of Merle Oberon by famed Engraver Gerald Brockhurst for which Miss Oberon paid ?2,000 (see cut). More pleasing to the British public was toothsome Jessie Matthews in oils by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (see cut). Also in evidence was Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina...
Dusolina was first of the young Gianninis to reach the headlines. At 19 she was suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case in a Manhattan concert. Critics raved over the warm beauty of her voice, its effortless production. Dusolina made $50,000 that year (1923), went on to fresh triumphs in Italy, Germany, Austria. The Metropolitan Opera engaged her last year...