Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three 3½-year-old female elephants enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...
...explanation, according to Lieutenant Waterman: Southerners are in no hurry, take time to chew; the hard water of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains and of Tennessee's Cumberland Range contains minerals which help to build strong teeth. Easterners are always on the go, gulp and gobble their relatively soft food and water, lack exercise and fresh...
...Manhattan's Town Hall month before last, few U. S. concertgoers had ever heard of her. Last week, as Soprano Pitzinger finished her first U. S. tour, delighted critics went back a whole generation for their comparisons, acclaimed her as the greatest Lieder singer since Wüllner, Gulp and Gerhardt. Thirty-two-year-old Soprano Pitzinger learned Lieder as a girl from Bohemian peasants, studied more with Vienna's famed Lieder composer, Joseph Marx. Five years ago she braved a Berlin recital, became an overnight sensation. In London last May she was thrilled to sing in Beethoven...
...Heink, Lotte Lehmann) have ever satisfied the connoisseurs. Most great Lieder singers are specialists. Greatest of them in recent years have been: i) Dr. Ludwig Wüllner, who started life as a professor of philology in Münster, toured the U. S. in 1908-10; 2) Julia Gulp, a Dutch contralto (originally a violinist as well as a singer), who visited the U. S. in 1913; and 3) Elena Gerhardt, a pupil of the late great Conductor Artur Nikisch, who came...
Sirs: Your usually accurate and impartial publication has swallowed in one gulp a whole cup full of the juice of."sour grapes." Apparently without making any effort whatever to check his story, you have printed a lengthy letter from James Backton of Hollywood, Calif., with regard to his arrest in Mississippi which does bitter injustice to the people of this expanding Southern Slate (TIME, April...