Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safety in the Leftist rear. Of these Mr. Fred Keller, a former choir boy, elevator boy, newspaper reporter and amateur boxer, who is a political commissar of the Abies & Georgies, had the most hair-raising tale to tell. Placed by his Rightist captors under guard in a house, chunky, muscular Commissar Keller overpowered and killed his guard, crept away into the night, had wandered about for four days behind Rightist lines, swum the Ebro River three times with a bullet in his hip before he was able to slip through to the Leftists...
...Edward Johnson, having listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father's fur business, studied singing for five years before presenting himself as a contestant, sings today...
...Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841), Russia's handsome, dashing Charles Davidov (1838-89), bearded Alsatian Hugo Becker (1767-1841), and 78-year-old Saxon Julius Klengel...
...Hasty Pudding has once again served up a dish of varied entertainment, including the customary elements of political satire, night club patter, songs, romance struggling to be serious, and muscular chorus girls realizing that they're caricatures and making the most of it. The inevitable thrust at Yale is unusually satisfying, and some of the extraordinary political situations concocted by the authors yield flows of amusing cracks. An abundance of competent workmanship has gone into this show, "So Proudly We Hail," but it is lacking in the verve that would make it stand out in the history of Pudding theatricals...
...eight songs go over well. The acting of the four pairs of lovers is uniformly good, but special praise is due the chorus. The muscular chorines, colorfully and often exotically gowned, have mastered their difficult routine and present it with striking precision...