Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia Lewis might well have showed stage fright, but she didn't. When she stepped on the stage at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell one night last summer, before the Philadelphia Orchestra and Conductor Alexander Smallens, she had never sung with an orchestra. She had not been rehearsed for this concert. She had just been handed an unfamiliar arrangement of two songs from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Someone had stepped on her gown and ripped it. But the chunky, dignified, dark brown Negro soprano let loose a voice for which everyone, including Conductor Smallens, predicted...
...time during World War I Rothermere served as Air Minister (he resigned after his two oldest sons were killed in action). When Britain's first Labor Government came into power in 1924, he took fright. He invested a large part of his fortune in the U. S., turned his editorial guns on Communism, began to look respectfully at dictators. In 1934 he jumped on Hitler's bandwagon, threw his support to Sir Oswald Mosley's British blackshirts. He soon abandoned Mosley, but it was not until a few months before World War II broke out that Rothermere...
...oiled Crimson field hockey machine crushed a hapless band of Elis in field hockey, 3 to 0, at Wheaton yesterday afternoon. The game was nip-and-tuck for two minutes, but then superior Harvard strategy began to tell. In the last period the Blue-bellies turned place blue with fright...
Outside Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall the New York Daily News conducted its own investigation of The Ramparts, asked exiting audiences their reaction. Prospective soldiers between 20 and 40 denied any fright, spouted such remarks as: "This picture makes me more willing than ever to fight. . . ." "Far from frightening Americans, it makes them want to get busy before they are smashed as Europe's little countries were. . . ." "We don't scare...
...raid New World shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic reconnaissance, long on guns...