Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...
...Sporting (bulldogs, chows, poodles, Dalmatians, etc.). Month ago Mrs. Milton S. Erlanger's standard poodle, Ch. Pillicoc Rumpelstilskin. won the American Kennel Club award for best American-bred show dog of 1937. So his victory last week was expected-and forthcoming. Torblack Rumpelstilskin. with his high, surprised looking face and rich mane, had won best in non-sporting groups in 29 shows, eleven better than the closest record of an importation...
When the three big and three little finalists (all, except Spicypiece, American-bred-a new record for Westminster shows) romped into the ring, 15,000 spectators began all together nominating their choices to their neighbors. Judge Bates looked first at Rumpelstilskin, the poodle. He seemed a little frightened by the formidable little Pekingese, over which huge John Royce fluttered with a hairbrush. He paused long by white Spicy-piece who stood in marble stillness. He ran his fingers through the collie's long coat. He carefully examined the teeth, fore & hindquarters, neck, back and feathers of the setter...
...Young (Yan Di Lin). Businesslike Jack, who had hunted the panda before, arranged the party's affairs; and it was tall, slouchy Quentin, interpreter and trapper, who actually captured fat little Su Lin for her. Notwithstanding, the book amply testifies the romantic courage of Mrs. Harkness-a city-bred woman who ventured into a foreign wilderness with no preparation beyond the reading of adventure stories...
...Angelo Henry ("Hank") Luisetti, son of a restaurant chef, is the No. 1 product of this extraordinary coaching regime. He is considered so superior to all other basketball players this year that he is one of the few basketball subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both), he has effected some...