Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beethoven's Fidelia with sure-voiced Kirsten Flagstad jam-packed the Metropolitan Opera House last week. But the record crowd of the season turned out for a special performance of La Boheme in which the heroine was Grace Moore making her first Manhattan opera appearance since 1932. Since then, with One Night of Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind...
...GOING TO DRIVE FAST" is an extremely useful handbook of automobile information, giving tips on when and where to drive fast, how to handle your car at high speeds, and what to do when you got in a jam travelling fast. Along with "And Sudden Death" it should be handed out to every applicant for a driving license...
...rink. They eat six meals and take three urine tests a day to satisfy health officials that they are not too exhausted. Their skates, provided free, have maple wheels- By last week, the Roller Derby's repair shop had rounded 1,400 flat wheels. During the race, "jams" & sprints for small prizes are encouraged. When a contestant is injured a siren stops the jam, the contestant's teammate takes the track. Most serious fall in Chicago's current Roller Derby occurred last week when a Mrs. Albie Whitney crashed into a railing, broke her shoulder...
...student of two hundred years ago was fed in a manner closely resembling that of the English colleges, the "buttery" books reveal. Close to the main dining hall there was a pantry, managed by the butler, where students might order extra or special portions of choose, ale, butter, bread, jam, and the like, if they desired. When such an order was filled, the butler marked the purchase against the student's name listed on a record sheet tacked to the wall. Many of these record sheets are bound up in the "buttery" ledger...
...were modeled after the group of more than 1,000 English, German, French and Dutch clubs formed a decade ago for the practical purpose of purchasing and pooling "hot" records from the U. S. In the U. S. the purpose of the clubs is to revive old masterpieces, organize "jam sessions" like Goodman's Chicago concert, discuss their hobby in terms which often sound like highflown nonsense...