Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father to sell his Melrose store and, raking and scraping together some $30,000, set out for Europe on a cattle boat...
...season was closing, Knoedler's swank Manhattan art gallery made art news by giving an important loan exhibition of Goya paintings (TIME, April 23). This week, with a new season just under way, Knoedler's again made news with another important loan show. On exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer), his peasant woman taking...
...orphan from an early age, Henri learned the mysteries of his profession from his foster brother, Jean Camous, became a precocious adept. At ten he had embarked on his career, soon found there was more to it than gravy. In England he nearly starved, but he learned the language and what little there was to know about English cookery. His peregrinations over Europe in pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took...
...turtle, Fleur de Lys, came through safely was Mrs. Piccard's first concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...
...public address system installed in the Eliot House dining room will serve to amplify the music of Val Jean's orchestra, which has been secured for the House dance on Saturday evening, after the Princeton game...