Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intricate barbed-wire defenses, slithered across their wide trenches. The surprised Germans bolted before the tanks' machine-gun fire. In ten hours 10,000 German soldiers surrendered. The Allied command lacked the wit or experience to make Cambrai a decisive victory, but the tank had made its effective debut. (A few tanks had been so misused at the Somme and in the Third Battle of Ypres that most military men ignored them...
...opera The Man without a Country. The opera 'was a flop, but Traubel stayed on in Manhattan, cooking her own meals, mending her own clothes, plugging away patiently at her vocal studies. Two years later she managed to scrape up the cash for a Town Hall debut and critics made such a fuss that the Metropolitan added her to its permanent staff...
Divorced. By Helen Lee Eames Doherty Wessel, stepdaughter of the late multimillionaire utilitycoon Henry L. Doherty: Theodore William Wessel, former Danish Chargé d'Affaires in Santiago; seven years after marriage; in West Palm Beach. Her extravagant Washington debut in threadbare 1930 was the target of Congressional criticism; party favors for some of the guests were automobiles...
...most obvious effect of the war on the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will be seen tonight when the two old-timers take a new-comer in their midst to sing at their big concert. Irving Fine '37 will introduce the Navy Communications School Glee Club in their debut before a University audience...
...that same debut will be Fine's "Incidental Music to Alice in Wonderland" and Mabel Dentels' "Dum Dianao Vitrea" which have never been sung before in any concert. Likewise the two choruses from "King David" by Houeggar have seen little previous performance...