Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the score of Broadway greats who received their first training in the theatre as members of the Club are Robert Benchley '12, author, humorist, and actor, John Mason Brown '23, who now is a top-notch critic, and Leo Simonson '08, a famous designer...
...defense also hired Dr. Thomas Stanislaus Cusack, top-notch Brooklyn neuropsychiatrist, who interviewed the patient for an hour and a half last week, emerged to announce: "I have not as yet formulated any opinion." Homosexuality? The avid public, aided by an eager press, did not share Dr. Cusack's clinical restraint. Headlines billed Lonergan as a homosexual who seemed utterly unmoved by his wife's murder...
When not watching the ballet, Painter Davis works five hours a day at her easel, sometimes seven days a week. She lives in a big apartment near the East River end of Manhattan's 86th Street, with her husband, top-notch Magazine Illustrator (now War Correspondent) Floyd Davis, their two children and a dachshund named Nietzsche...
...Kiwis-good Bastard material, but non-flyers-(named after the kiwi, a bird which cannot fly), to 300-odd Golden Dolphins, a society of submariners, first became a "mother" to seven American aviators who tried to volunteer for service with the Chinese Air Force in 1931. A top-notch San Francisco surgeon, she has flown thousands of miles to give her medical skill to her "sons," makes her son-given home their rendezvous and trophy room, numbers among her Kiwi names Lily Pons, Carl Van Doren, Helen Hayes, Katharine Cornell. After her red-hot friend's show she smiled...
When he was through he produced a Tosca, a Martha and a Carmen that set a new standard of quality in the popular-priced operatic field. Critics rated Tosca (with Soprano Dusolina Giannini and Baritone George Czaplicki) a notch higher than the Metropolitan's recent job (in which Soprano Grace Moore and Baritone Lawrence Tibbett substituted U.S. ham for Italian salami). The City Center's Carmen featured one of the best Carmens in a decade: dusky Jennie Tourel. Daughter of a traveling Russian fur merchant, Jennie Tourel, once a prima donna of the Paris Opera-Comique, now lives...