Word: martinis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less an authority than that of Yale ("Drink Her Down") University, it was argued last week that a highball, a Martini or three glasses of beer could be consumed on an empty stomach without impairing its owner's ability to drive a car. Double the amounts could be taken after eating...
...chroniclers have followed a pat formula. The story usually starts with the teller being convicted of a felony. In a temporary prison at the citadel of St. Martin-de-Ré, in the Bay of Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days...
...three Italian roles and reduce 25 Ib. in three months, made her U. S. debut in II Trovatore (Leonore). Nicola Moscona, Greek basso, attracted the whole Greek colony to his Ramfis (Aïda). Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini) from absolute mediocrity; dependable molasses-voiced Contralto Bruna Castagna (always affectionately regarded by Manhattan operagoers who knew her when she sang at the lowly Hippodrome) saved at least three operas (Samson et Dalila, II Trovatore, Norma) from a similar fate...
There will be one man in the stands tomorrow with emotions as mixed as a martini cocktail. He is Latta McCray, guard on last year's Dartmouth Varsity and present line coach of the Harvard Freshmen...
Music for Madame (RKO Radio). Nino Martini's tenor insufficiently disguises a weak-backed melofarce...