Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...census. It was interesting to speculate upon which one of these the fierce light of publicity would beat, during the white winter, causing utterances like the "divine spark" speech of Grace Moore, and bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise unsatisfactory. Grace Divine and Pearl Besuner (a tobacconist...
...when reporters called last week. Said she: "I always wanted to sing serious roles, and I cannot tell you how happy I am. No, I am not married. ... All things are within the realm of possibility. . . . My father will come from his home in Reading, Pa., to attend my debut. My real name was Helen Howard, you know. Mother died some years ago. . . . My life reads just like the lives of Mary Lewis and Grace Moore. I do not cook. I am not an outdoor girl. Doesn't that sound banal...
...South Bend aggregation, travelling East for a post-season barnstorming tour, has a good record behind it, twenty-three victories and six defeats. In their debut in this district Thursday, the Notre Dame players met an 8 to 1 defeat at the hands of the strong Boston College nine. A lapse in fielding was responsible for their setback...
Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman...
...after the concert: "You sang like a gol-durn angel." It became obvious that Miss Witwer was being groomed to enter the list of artistically mediocre "favorite daughters" of U. S. opera. Like Grace Moore (TIME, Feb. 20), Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut at the Metropolitan (Otto Kahn, Chairman), opera-devotees would again make puns about "You Kahn or you Kahn't," or "What's the matter with Witwer...