Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even with a Metropolitan contract, Flagstad was loath to leave Norway. She had married Henry Johansen, a wealthy lumber merchant. The Christmas holiday season was on. She liked to ski and she dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German...
Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...
...items of material have been arranged in a simple and logical manner, while elaborate alphabetical and chronological card files make everything easily and quickly accessible.DAVID GARRICK Famous English actor, whose portrait in oll, a likeness of which is shown above, started his successful dramatic career as an unsuccessful wine merchant...
...hundred and seventeen years. James Fenimore Cooper is about thirty years sour on life; and no less pugnacious and determined than fifteen years ago, when he was gently booted out of Yale for insubordination. But that's all back of him now; as well as his career on a merchant vessel seeing Europe for the first time and later as a midshipman in the United States navy...
Investigation disclosed that Merchant Rosenthal had bought his soda by the barrel from one Nick Manno, who had salvaged it from broken Arm & Hammer brand packages. In two weeks bargain-hunting housewives had snapped up 800 lb. Examination showed no traces of poison in other broken Arm & Hammer packages, thus indicating that Rosenthal's soda had been contaminated during or since salvage. A chemist reported that it could hardly have been an accident, because the poisons and soda were too thoroughly mixed...