Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stranded Soprano. Revelers in the Met's Sherry bar hadn't missed much in Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch's opening-night performance. Greek Soprano Elen Dosia's bow in Tosca was no better. But the surprise debut of Cloe Elmo, a first-rate Italian mezzo-soprano, was a different story...
...unnamed but "famous American unmarried lady," murmured into a microphone these Orphic clues to her identity. Millions of Americans, feverishly jotting them on cuffs, newspapers and old paper bags, remembered that the winners of Truth or Consequences' contests on Mr. Hush (Jack Dempsey) and Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) had won $13,500 and $17,590 respectively. Soon the Hush money had fact-finding listeners in block-long queues at the Los Angeles Public Library; in Manhattan's Times Square, tipsters hawked greensheets (the not-so-hot tip: Evangeline Booth) at $1. But nobody guessed. Miss Hush dropped more...
...everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which crammed the bow-windows of the ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved prisoners fell on the bodies of their dead comrades and, if not too disgusted...
...your correspondent is presenting the straight goods, and I believe he is, then I, as one of this country's well-meaning, nonthinking citizens, bow my head in shame...
...band, the parade will swing out onto Massachusetts Avenue up to Bow Street. From there it will travel to Mount Auburn Street and down Mount Auburn to Boylston Street. Thence, picking up impetus as it moves, the parade will sweep down Boylston, over the Larz Anderson Bridge, and up to the steps of the Field House. Expected time of arrival there is 7:30 o'clock...