Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opera auditions of the air. As Rosalinda, she showed that she is ready for bigger things than operetta. The other, blue-eyed Philadelphia-born Virginia MacWatters, a protégé of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann, tossed off her tricky coloratura arias with the ease and precision of a knife thrower, set critics to speculating on her rosy future...
Georgia, more spectacular of the two, boasts the most publicized player of the year. Every football fan who can read knows about Frankie Sinkwich's flat feet, his un-Southern background (Youngstown, Ohio), his prima-donna temperament, his peculiar ability to knife inside tackle and the fact that he made 19 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. Flat-Foot Frankie was the nation's No. 1 ballcarrier last year. This fall he has discovered that he has a slingshot arm as well as flat feet. In the first six games of the season he rolled...
...titans of touch will meet this afternoon when an undefeated and united CRIMSON squad gurgles back at the challenging members of the "Princetonian," crusading daily from New Jersey. An unsullied, pure, clean, perfect record is at stake for the knife-witted hooligans of Plympton Street, and a mighty machine is prepared to defend it. The score should...
...windows, tore down the banister, went on to an outbuilding, broke all the windows, set the barn afire, pushed on across a field, caught a snake, killed it, caught a lamb, killed it, returned to the river, kicked the windows out of a boathouse, threatened Ben Harris with a knife (crying, "Don't move or I'll shoot!"), went on to a cottage, kicked the doors in, tried to set the place afire, was grabbed by a posse. Cried the goggle-eyed judge who sent him to the State reformatory (with a sentence of from...
...Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the fluently translating Missimo. At President Lin Sen's mansion Willkie sampled a succulent Chinese-French cuisine including poisson du Yangtze au bain Marie and champignons du Fukien á la volaille. Willkie tried chopsticks, but quickly fell back on knife & fork...