Word: prima
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian who has crossed the Atlantic twelve times, who once flew from London to Paris to visit his veterinarian. Louis Ruhe, famed Manhattan animal importer, sent many a truckload of his wares including bears, warthogs, porcupines. When...
...lead in the British production of Mary, scored again in a revival of Lehar's The Merry Widow and in Madame Pompadour. She is now on her first visit to the U. S. Loud as was her reception, it was no louder than that accorded to U. S. Prima Donna Peggy Wood who sang the same role when Bitter Sweet opened in London last July. Ladies in Peggy Wood's audience tore off and flung to her their corsage bouquets...
...Prima Donna Gladys Baxter has a bounteous voice and sings a czardas with considerable fire. In the last act the Shuberts, unable to suppress their vaudeville, interpolate a comedian named Solly Ward who tells time by the number of cats in the backyard and, observing six, declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet...
...unsatisfactory records are not necessarily placed on probation, since each case is treated individually. If, however, the grades of a student in good standing who has extended a holiday should become unsatisfactory at any time during the year, the Administrative Board would regard the extension of a holiday as prima facie evidence of neglect of work, and probation would naturally follow. To take another example, holiday cuts would count against a student if his absences from classes at other times during the year should become excessive in number...
...Fate of the Baron is the tale of an aristocratic gentleman whose life's errand is to become the lover of a prima donna and whose ecstacy at her final acceptance is quickly changed to gentlemanly chagrin when she leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...