Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revival was a gala occasion. A throat affliction prevented Soprano Rosa Ponselle from appearing as Donna Anna. But Leonora Corona, pretty, fat-cheeked Texan, sang creditably if not brilliantly a role she had had only four weeks to prepare. Other interpretations were careful, unexciting. Italian Ezio Pinza made a dashing Don in brocaded breeches and wide-plumed hats, but his voice lacked the subtlety needed for Mozart's tunes...
...Ruggiero play trills and double stops with a master's assurance, but his tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula Bustaba, 12, of Chicago, who learned the violin's four strings by means of color: Bennie Steinberg, 12, of Baltimore; Oskar Shumsky, 12, of Philadelphia...
...eleven West Pointers in gold sweaters played all afternoon without a substitution against a Notre Dame team that has the finest record in the U. S. Time and again Army tacklers broke through to down shifty Moon Mullins and Sprinter Jack Elder. In the second quarter Elder, on his four-yard line, got to an Army pass. Instead of knocking it down and covering receivers, in the fashion proper for goal-line defenders, he caught it, raced 96 yards for the only touchdown of the game. Notre Dame 7, Army 0. Brainy, hard running, hard kicking Carideo's punts...
...took my first bicycle tour in Germany, I noticed that the German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...
...over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio of 8 to 1. From a half mile height it can glide four miles in still...