Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
Navy's problem was a real oversupply of star backs. To solve it, Coach Oscar Hagberg switched Captain Dick Duden, a blocking-back bruiser, to end. Even when a scrimmage injury put Halfback George Walmsley out for the season, Coach Hagberg still wondered how his new T could best use his three remaining backfields...
...year-old John McCormack went off to Milan to study. Two years later he was on the Covent Garden stage himself, singing Cavalleria Rusticana. And in another two years he was a hit at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House. Critics still had reservations: they referred to him as "the best endowed lyric tenor of his time." Ah, but singing Kathleen Mavourneen or Irish Eyes when Al Smith or Jimmy Walker or any other good Irishman was about, he'd steal their hearts away...
Every week, the good citizens of La Rochelle saw the respected Donadieu family march in stately procession to Holy Mass, led by Grand Old Man Oscar Donadieu, La Rochelle's eminent shipping magnate. Every week, old Donadieu's youngest daughter, Martine, stealthily opened her bedroom window and admitted her handsome lover, Philippe, La Rochelle's most unscrupulous Casanova...
Polish-born, 41-year-old Oscar Lange is no stranger to the State Department, although he is unknown to most of Poland's 25 million. He has been in the U.S. over ten years. Besides Chicago, he has also taught at Columbia, Stanford, the University of California...