Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warming up for an opportunity to win the title next summer from Champion Louis. After he had knocked out Louis, Schmeling thought he was to meet Jim Braddock for the championship, but Braddock believed he could make more money fighting Louis. Schmeling's opponent this week, a burly blond named Harry Thomas, was a comparative unknown, a college graduate who had been a professional baseball player and railroad engineer, had knocked out 44 of his 56 opponents in five years of professional boxing, had never been knocked down...
...halls for people who buy tickets to listen to them; the best jazz is made up on the spur of the moment, belongs in the jam session or the dance hall. Last week in Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly to get hot. The result was pretty tepid, but not their fault. William Grant Still, Negro composer of the Afro-American Symphony, had asked for it by writing...
...mother, who died last year at 73. Tall, Andalusian Pepita was descended from a hot-blooded family of old-clothes peddlers, smugglers, bandits fruit sellers, gypsies. Too clumsy to succeed as a dancer in Madrid, in Paris her beauty and Spanish charm were more than enough. Tall, blond, 25-year-old Lione' Sackville-West, of the British diplomatic corps, made her his mistress on sight...
Last spring big, blond Henry Lamar found himself in a double dilemma. As a University of Virginia alumnus, he had to see a Harvard boxing team, coached by him, meet the scrappers from his former alma mater; and as a Harvard coach, he had to watch his team fight its last intercollegiate match...
Scion of an ancient Venetian family, suave, blond Count Cippico is a close friend of Arthur Davis, chairman of the board of Aluminum Co. of America. Both men are heavy smokers and some three years ago they got to discussing some means of eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This...