Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a mewling white tenor has strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto...
...were lucky enough to get into Duke's Stadium, this year's game was something to see. There were four triple-threats on the field: Duke's two famed McAfee Brothers and Carolina's equally famed "Sweet" Lalanne and George Stirnweiss. At half time, Carolina was leading...
...dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are themselves the true substance of this story. Lacking entirely the brilliance of the best work in its field, lacking no less the textbook glibness of the cheap work, as a psychological novel, Believe the Heart is definitely to be respected...
Young college graduates especially are being sought for the nine months course winding up at Kelly Field, the government announced. The board, which will be located on the second floor of the Hygiene Building today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, has been interviewing undergraduates in Creater Boston colleges for the past two weeks...
...within six minutes of the final whistle in the Stadium had an extra on Larz Anderson bridge with the final score and play-by-play account of the game. "Conant Resigns Presidency; Hutchins Named As Successor" was the headline of the Record's bogus issue distributed at Soldiers Field before the game, while "Harlow Resigns Post" was the 72 point banner on the News' effort which was delivered in the dormitories and Houses in the morning...