Word: mimi
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Before many seasons were over she was on her way to study in Paris with the parting blessing of the late Otto H. Kahn. In a few years, Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza had signed her for a Metropolitan debut as Mimi...
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Your Music editor has made a grave error. Bidu Sayao (TIME, Feb. 14) is not the Metropolitan Opera's best Mimi. Grace Moore...
Speaking of Caruso and his operatic antics in your Oct. 11 issue, I believe top honors should go to his trickery in a performance of La Bohème. Before the death scene, he removed two of the rollers from the ancient iron bed. . . . Every time the consumptive Mimi (Frances Alda) dared move, the bedstead shuddered, groaned, and gave every sign of collapsing...
...Mimi-Memo Method. The linguisti-cians' way of teaching is based on the experiences of the Americanists, students of U.S. Indian tribes, who were forced to learn many a tongue which had no written literature. Ancestor of the group was Columbia's late, great ethnologist Franz ("Papa") Boas. He and his greatest linguistic follower, the late Edward Sapir of Yale, could rattle on in Indian tongues which they learned by listening to red men, making phonetic notes, mimicking, memorizing...