Word: gino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just in time to attract Legionnaires on the morning after their big parade (see p. 12), the Museum of Modern Art hung up a selection of gruesome war etchings by German Otto Dix, who spent four years on the Western Front, and a dynamic painting, Armored Train, by Italian Gino Severini, one of the Italian Futurists who discovered about 1915 that war was both hygienic and beautiful...
National Champion and the ablest player in the country. "Gino" is Virginia Van Wie, champion from 1932 through 1934. "Maureen" is square-jawed Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews of Miami who has been runner-up to the other two more often than anyone else. Last week, it became apparent that this exclusive little cabal was henceforth to be enlarged by "Patty." Patty is Patricia Jane Berg, a snubnosed, redhaired, 18-year-old from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe...
...Camden, N. J., a few nights after the bout in Boston, Ernie Dusek wrestled Gino Garibaldi. A spectator in the balcony hurled down a chair which hit Ernie Dusek on the head. He was hospitalized...
...professional at De Land, Fla., where the Van Wies spend their winters, she entered her first tournament at 16, beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast Championship the next year. With Glenna, Maureen and Helen Hicks, whom she beat in the final of the National last year, Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie, now 25, was a member of the group of four women golfers who shared almost all the major prizes of the game until Mrs. Vare went into semi-retirement two years ago, and Helen Hicks became a professional. Slimmest of the four, with brown bobbed hair, brown eyes...
...Walska went to Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...