Word: oliner
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...souvenir of an adolescence spent in the roughest company in the toughest mining towns of the Southwest, has apparently acquired no more vicious taste than a fondness for vanilla milkshakes. After last week's fight, his first in defense of the title he won from Bob Olin last autumn, Lewis refreshed himself at a soda fountain, retired to his training camp to consider offers for fights in Paris, London, Sydney...
...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...
...made instrument but like a vibrant human voice spontaneously singing, whispering, shouting to the skies. Every piano student knew the pieces by Gluck, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt. But fresh cause for wonder were Hofmann's dazzling arpeggios, the flying double octaves, the countless tonal colors. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times next day: "It was playing of the grandest and most compelling sort...
Professor Olin Templin of the University of Kansas, will address the alumni of the University of Kansas living in greater Boston at a dinner at the University Club this evening...
...when Lulu was slain. Austria's Alban Berg is one of the few real modernists who has been able to write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced it "involved trash," while Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune went the whole hog in the other direction by saying: "The layman, if he can accustom himself to a doubtless indisposing idiom, will find in it a lacerating beauty, a piercing expressiveness often...