Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nicholas Arena one night last week the smoke curdled in a cone of hot light above the ring, the crowd yelled, the gong clanged and the boys in the fourth bout bobbed out of their corners. Probably nobody there was reminded of George Bellows' prizefight pictures except one of the boys, Tony Sisti from Buffalo. Tony, who had been out of the ring nearly nine years, was staging a comeback. Its purpose, which tickled the sportswriters: to finance his own art exhibition this week at Manhattan's Argent Galleries...
...many better advertised saints, all specialists, that few mortals bother much with this hoodlum saint, who roams the outfield of eternity, making shoestring catches of souls-a saint who has no following to speak of, no medals, no propaganda. There's nothing to recommend him, really, except the fact that to no other saint in the calendar did the Son of God make the witnessed statement: 'You fill the bill.' Which helps explain why those who do believe in Dismas believe...
...played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe trio, until the scores were as authentic as he could make them. After the concert, critics gave editor and performers a vigorously genial...
Oakland East and North-SUSPEND ALL TRAFFIC EXCEPT SHIP TO GROUND...
Doing the rounds between New York Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, and Miami keeps her on the go all year except during the summer, Miss Southern said. She continued, "Even though I enjoy playing New York the most, I find Boston audiences the most appreciative. I think the reason for it is that in all the other cities, the better clubs have a strip act included in the floor show. I don't remember having seen anything like that...