Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hired for Shaw's debut by the Academy of Political Science was the broad stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. All seats were filled, at a top price of $5, Shaw graciously waiving his fee. He stepped forth springily from the wings just before 8:30 p. m., apparently misinformed about the hour of the NBC broadcast, which was 8:45 p. m. He fussed with his beard, rustled his notes and twinkled professionally at Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament and Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds, present to sponsor and introduce him. At length, when the radiomen, signalled ready...
...Faulkner, with a prominent but still embattled reputation as a proseman, now comes forth with a small (72-page) book of poems. It is his second such venture (in 1924 he published The Marble Faun) and only deep-dyed Faulknerites will find it more fine than frenzied. His simultaneous debut last week as a cinema author was more impressive evidence of his versatility...
...Alumni game a year ago that Loughlin made his pitching debut in Harvard baseball. Today he will be held in reserve and Harold Taylor probably will draw the starting assignment from Coach Mitchell. No changes are planned in the Harvard lineup and the personnel of the team will be the same as defeated Princeton and Pennsylvania...
...Aero Squadron, learned flying from Col. Clarence Chamberlin. He was selling insurance when the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church chose him from 46 applicants to be its tenor soloist. There followed concerts with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, concerts on his own, numerous festival engagements, finally an operatic debut six years ago in Germany...
...this, my official and only debut, I, Big Splash, will take stock of the Varsity natators. It will be with light hearts that the Crimson mermen will leave Cambridge this afternoon, confident that they will easily prevail over Columbia in the dual meet to be held in the pool of the New York institution tomorrow afternoon...