Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Law School Association scholarships amounting to $250 each were awarded to Paul Martinson of New York City, Harvel Shulsky of New York City; Paul John Coughlin of Spokane, Washington; Hugo Frederick Blumenberg of Wheeling, West Virginia; David Miller of Mineral Wells, Texas; William Brainerd Carmen Jr., of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota; Warren Eugene Hoagland of Kansas City, Missouri; Irving Herman Jurow of Brooklyn, New York; Kenneth David McCracken of Paxton, Illinois; and Nathan Allen Cobb, of Portland, Maine...
...three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered a pack to follow a fellow convict into Siberia. Tristan and Isolde, laid away for several seasons now, was brought out for the debut of Elsa Alsen, a very worthy Isolde. Rigoletto had its turn, Il Trovatore, a Sunday matinee of Carmen, the second week opening with Lucia. Chicagoans were well-pleased-with the first week list and the singers, with the able direction of Giorgio Polacco, with the fact that the subscription sale this year has been much greater than ever...
...Manhattan last week the operatic hat was taken from its leather case, dusted off a bit and tossed into the ring known most dignifiedly as the music season. Out of it jumbled Carmen, Aïda, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Madame Butterfly, II Trovatore, a bit stiff and worn from too much service, arranged themselves in auspicious sequence for the first week's repertoire of the San Carlo Opera Company...
...Carmen did her turn first, did it well, won the praise of connoisseurs for the gratifying performance of Soprano Lorna Doone Jaxon, the general excellence of the ensembles. Aïda seemed depressed by the idea of her own popularity, sagged a little, but Rigoletto stepped along, vigorously, evenly. Then came Boheme, tender, lush; Cavalleria, primitive, sententious; Pagliacci, glittering, theatrical; Butterfly, effusive, incidental; and Trovatore fittingly climactic...
...Commission Council. To them he now marched and with a few crisp words of common sense, a bit of gruff humor and some judicious ejaculations, soon brought concord out of conflict. The strike was off. New Orleans, in hot August, did not walk to its work or play. The carmen adopted a resolution of thanks to Editor Ballard for "injecting" himself into their affairs. It was most unusual for a 20th century editor, in a big city, to do such a thing-to descend from his rostrum, divested of the editorial "we" and its ulterior formality. Most big-city editors...