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Word: donnas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prima donna of chemistry, hydrogen is present in 300,000 known compounds. Deuterium promised to be a twin prima donna capable of producing 300,000 new compounds. Commonest hydrogen compound is hydrogen oxide-water. First and most obvious heavy hydrogen compound is deuterium oxide-heavy water. In fact this looks like ordinary water and is only 10 percent heavier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prima Donna No. 2 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...years in opera her fa ther never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other big parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Am Success | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

After having had its name changed innumerable times the new Friml operetta has been chirstened "Annina" and the first performance will be given tomorrow night at the Shubert. At the head of a pretentious cast is the Viennese prima donna, Mme. Jeritza, famous for her voice and blonde hair. The story holds true to the tradition of light opera both in having its setting in the lazy and carefree Vienna of Francis Joseph, and in the Cinderella motiff which is the basis of the plot. With the singing of Jeritza, the undoubted musical ability of Mr. Friml, and the elaborate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospects | 3/9/1934 | See Source »

...bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record. Steersman Colgate, son of the late Soapman Gilbert Colgate, learned bob-sled driving in Europe. Closest to the Colgate team was the Adirondack Bobsled Club team, piloted by Donna Fox. On its last run the Fox sled, with "knee action'' runners made of an aluminum alloy, jumped the track just below Whiteface, landed safely on the roadway beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bobbers | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Many distinctive features are to be found in the 1934 edition of "The Greenwich Village Follies." Chich York and Rose King are its co-stars. They are ably assisted by Coley Worth, comedian; Edith Drake, prima donna; Ayres and Rene, with Rasche, adaglo dancers; True Yorke, daughter of the headliners; Ernest Charles, stage, screen and radio tenor; the Greenwich Village male octette, and Ruby Norton, musical comedy and vandeville favorite. The Three California Redheads, feminine dancing beauties, are an added feature attraction. The ensemble is made up of thirty Greenwich Village beauties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

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