Word: melba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigated by police last February.) The diva decided to take the animal home, install it in temperature-controlled luxury. For a wild dog the molasses-colored mongrel had an even disposition, a splendid coat. Likely cause for these genteel qualities was the Hempel diet: good beef, carrots, melba toast, cod-liver oil, and sometimes mineral...
...Greece is a true hell. The Greeks are the recipients not of cruel beatings, but of a finesse in occupation tactics. The German system is slow, sure, and unimaginable. In Athens a good menu would consist of a breakfast of herb tea and a Melba-size slice of dry bread; luncheon would be weeds from the garden, cooked in a few drops of oil, if one were lucky enough to get oil, and another thin piece of dry bread; and finally, dinner would be vegetable soup, thickened with a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and for dessert...
...divas of the "Golden Age," only 71-year-old Olive Fremstad and 76-year-old Emma Eames were left. Emma Calvé had outlived Tetrazzini, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink by a few years, Melba, Nordica, Patti by many...
Australia is sometimes called the suburbs of the world by disgruntled Diggers. City dwellers live in sprawling suburban-type homes. Some Americans consider Dame Nellie Melba and Harry Bridges the only great Australian contributions to civilization. Because there has been no intense historical development in recent years, Australians have not yet given birth to the broad natural talents they possess. They may reveal themselves after the present national threat has run its course...
Majestic Soprano Nellie Melba was once asked by an eager young man if she would sing at a Manhattan morning musicale. "Sing!" snapped Melba. "I can't even spit at 11 a.m." But sing she did, and a whopping fee she got. That was nearly 50 years ago. After Melba, other great and near-great musicians jostled one another to perform for the dowagers at Albert Morris Bagby's Musical Mornings. Last January, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the 50th year of "the Bagbys," the 429th concert reached its end. For the first time dapper...