Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Frida Leider decided to remain in Europe this winter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company engaged a strapping Austrian soprano named Anny Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Brünnhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling...
Newsmen who queried the Brünnhilde on her swimming achievements found her English uncertain. She claims to have swum the Danube seven miles through Vienna, says that since 1919 she has been "the backside champion of Austria...
General Sadao Araki is Japan's champion sabre-rattler and No. 1 Militarist, but Japanese like to point out in his favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last...
...minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four-round bout against Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in the Chicago Stadium. Instead of treating the affair as a friendly exhibition, Champion Baer insulted King Levinsky when they met before the fight, affronted him further by insisting on dangerous 6 oz. fighting gloves instead of the soft 8-oz. ones customary in exhibition fights...
Last week, in the Chicago Stadium, King Levinsky's year had an appropriate ending. In the first round, he managed to maul the Champion with a few wild punches. In the second, Max Baer knocked...