Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh-as-a-breeze Annabella herself, according to Columnist Leonard Lyons, sent Rascoe a note saying: "Sorry I sickened you," and enclosing a bottle of castor...
...made special contributions. The first skate that could be steered was invented by Yankee machinist James Leonard Plimpton in 1863. It consisted of two pairs of wheels which turned inward or outward as the skater shifted his weight. Modern skates still use this principle. Jackson Haines, father of figure skating on ice, mastered the pre-Plimpton rollers and toured Europe...
...Leonard got a job in the chorus at the Radio City Music Hall. He started studying singing in earnest. A few months later, armed with a repertory of exactly five operatic arias, he entered the 1938 Metropolitan Auditions of the Air. "I thought they were fixed," he said later, "but what could I lose?" Much to his surprise, he not only won the auditions but also a $4,000 check from George A. Martin, president of the Sherwin-Williams Co., sponsors of the program. With the check he went to Italy to study. In six months he was singing...
...comparative novice, Leonard Warren has already sung a great deal, has mastered at least a dozen important roles. His private life is as notably unoperatic as his Bronx boyhood. A quiet, imperturbably good-natured man, he lives with his attractive blond wife (whom he met on his trip to Italy) in a four-room apartment on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. He has two avocations: miniature railroad trains and tropical fish...
...pinko New Republic has been found by the New Leader to show symptoms of "totalitarian liberalism" and also to be "a journal of subsidized opinion." (The New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen, was co-founder of the New Republic with her late husband, Willard Straight...