Word: au
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater critic for the Yale News. As "The Meyer Davis of Yale," he organized some five dance bands, one of which he took on 22 Atlantic crossings. One night he heard Tito Schipa sing an aria and decided to be an opera singer. By 1936 he wangled an au dition at the Metropolitan, but when he discovered the small size of his starting salary, he gave in to an offer to appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman Who's Who. Who's Who did not turn out to be Sonny. He played another musical, began singing...
...while his pianist was Oscar Levant). For years he set the beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio, a bit of toodle-oo, God bless you, and pleas-ant dreams...
Next to the late great Nicolò Paganini, the most famous violinist of the 19th Century was a fantastic Norwegian named Ole Bull. Ole (rhymes with Café au lait) took scarcely a violin lesson in his life. His brilliant playing was always eccentric in technique and in emotion it was usually the most sumptuous ham. But big, courtly, iron-muscled Ole was the most assertive personality in Norway and one of the most assertive personalities outside it. Last fortnight the first full-length biography of Ole Bull was published by his granddaughter's husband, Mortimer Smith of Sandy...
...soda jerker at South Hadley's sole fountain said bon jour to customers who last week asked for the soda au chocolat. Under the nearby shade trees of Mount Holyoke College's New England campus, entretiens (discussions) raged in French...
Right now, she is working in au education factory with an almost astronomical turnover, and her goal is to make the trainees who come to the Business School for a short period of time get some appreciation of Harvard's traditions, and more important feel at home here...