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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The roles of Cervantes and Don Quixote were played by Lee J. Cobb, 47, an excellent performer whose own search for truth has sometimes been confused. A would-be actor since his New York City College days, Cobb sold radios before he got into the old Group Theater, was on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Victory by Ridicule | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Waiting in the wings for his entrance cue during a Metropolitan Opera performance of The Marriage oj Figaro last week, Tenor Charles Kullman (Don Basilic) suddenly realized that he was missing something: his voice. His vocal cords evidently affected by a lingering cold, Kullman rushed to the dressing room and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Chairs at the Met | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Watching the performance from the audience, Tenor Robert Nagy guessed what had happened, hurried backstage and climbed into Carelli's discarded Don Curzio costume. After that, the performance went off without a hitch, despite the fact that Carelli had never sung Basilio at the Met (he had recorded it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Chairs at the Met | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Last week Dawkins was promoted to Oxford's first team to play against Blackheath, one of Britain's top teams. Treating Blackheath as though it were Navy, Dawkins crashed home on two tries in Oxford's 36-0 victory. Hoisting a friendly pint of stout with his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yank at Oxford | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

The creature crouched in the net at the Montreal Canadiens' end of the ice looked like nothing ever seen before in the National Hockey League. His face was covered by a flesh-colored, fiber-glass mask slashed by two dark ovals for eyes and a hole for a mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masked Marvel | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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