Word: melba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...
...Royal Highness, if the imperial schedule is not disturbed, will arrive at the Parliament Building on May 9 in one of the ten British Crossley cars at his official disposal in Australia. Before an assembled throng he will stand with Dame Nellie Melba, 68, "greatest Australian," who will lead a mighty singing of "God Save the King." Soon the Duke will step within, open Parliament, signalize that the world has a new Great Capital...
David A. Schulte, Manhattan retailer: "When women enter my tobacco shops or candy stores I can often recognize the scents of their powders and perfumes as having been made in my factories, for I, as a manufacturer, am Vivaudou, and Melba too. U. S. women now spend on the average $6 yearly for perfumes and cosmetics, I figure, and in five years they will spend three times as much...
...that nature had twined round her head in a manner which I have received credit for inventing. Well, I re-versed the tongs and curled the hair of this saucebox as she desired it; her friends came to me; soon I opened a new store; in two years Nellie Melba was among my customers. Four years ago the barbers of Paris erected a statue of me. I am a very rich...
...American Who's Who gives Dame Melba's age as 60; the New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 65; while many press despatches insisted she "is said to be 76." Her own estimate...