Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primitive quaintness, from the time that the first Radcliffe athletic class met in October, 1898 until Mrs. Hemenway's gymnasium opened its doors five years later, only a handful of bloomered lasses turned out for sports classes each term...
...give him a thrashing. Schermerhorn had just read Bingay's new book, Of Me I Sing (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50),.and he didn't like what Bingay had written about his father and his uncle (James Schermerhorn, once editor of the Detroit Times). Sample: "I have never met a more precise and perfect example of a hypocrite...
...Metropolitan Opera, with the notable help of its new conductor Fritz Reiner, had made a good many of its critics eat their words with a great performance of Salome (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week, the Met and its Maestro Reiner served them another mouthful-and let a nationwide radio audience...
This time, pudgy Conductor Reiner had no sensational Salome to work with. For his second opera, the Met hauled out of storage a number that takes elbow grease and even more finesse: Verdi's last, perhaps greatest but hardly popular opera, the ephemeral, fast-moving Falstaff...
What he did with them, and the way they sang and acted for him when the curtain was up would be remembered a while at the Met. The orchestra was elegantly incisive, and the singers were spiritedly convincing. The critics' consensus: Reiner had done it again...