Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laval, like Edda Mussolini, grew up her father's pal. Since a Dictator can do more for a pal than a mere statesman, Edda made her debut with a tour of the Far East on which she was showered with gifts by many a potentate, later married baby-faced Count Galeazzo Ciano who was promptly advanced through Italy's diplomatic service, and gradually promoted to his present rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda...
...expert today he learned in the rigorous oldtime manner, practicing in heavy harness which when it was removed made him feel more airy. In 1924 Christ Panduoro lost his money, returned to San Francisco to begin again in the embroidery business. Paul Haakon studied with Theodore Kosloff, made his debut in a San Francisco vaudeville house. In 1927 in Manhattan he danced as a faun in Cleopatra, managed to get in Pavlova's troupe a few months before she died...
...Croats, traditionally suppressed and embittered boycotters of every government at Belgrade, were for once benevolently on the fence, inclined to give Premier Stoyadinovitch a chance to prove his protestations that he is not just another Serbian wolf in politician's clothing. Said the new Premier at his debut last week before the Skupshtina: "The last words of Yugoslavia's great martyred King Alexander constitute my Government's program: 'Protect Yugoslavia...
...church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager...
...strongly, since it confers the additional advantage of making it unnecessary to compose a lot of new music. Love Me Forever is therefore both an original story and a sort of sugar-coated version, once removed, of La Boheme, in which Miss Moore, as Mimi, finally makes her gala debut...