Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quotation on the title page from Anna Hempstead Branch adequately sums up the character of Mitty as well as the essence of the whole book...
...Midwest, which, unlike California, lies far outside the world belt of earthquake frequency. In Indianapolis, Miss Lamar Montani was rolled out of bed and iron bars in the Bell Telephone offices were jounced off tables. In a prison at Jackson, Mich., convicts were thrown into a panic. In Anna, Ohio, chimneys knocked down by quakes last fortnight and subsequently repaired, tumbled again. Shaken residents of Dayton heard, or thought they heard, a deep rumble. In parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky, furniture danced, dishes rattled, pictures fell, canned goods tumbled from store shelves...
...SWAN OF LICHFIELD-Edited by Hesketh Pearson - Oxford University Press ($3.50). Selected correspondence of Anna Seward, an 18th Century highbrow journalist whose indiscreet literary anecdotes and witty rhetoric tickled her contemporaries, but "nauseated" the next generation's Victorians, who called her Johnsonian anecdotes an outrage...
...takes good care of herself, she is losing the figure that once made her look like a Valkyrie as well as sing like one. She spends what spare time she has playing twelve kinds of solitaire in her Manhattan hotel apartment, window-shopping with her 19-year-old stepdaughter Anna, who is studying interior decoration. Flagstad's husband, a wealthy Norse lumberman named Henry Johansen, joined them in Manhattan last month...
...sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes, she sang these ornate roles with brilliance and spirit. Johnson wanted to extend her term so she could be Donna Anna in a revival of Mozart's Don Giovanni. La Scala, where she was scheduled to sing this month, would not release...