Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover with a pair of binoculars, Mrs. Hoover with a blue and white Brazilian shawl. There was a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus. The Santa Claus (a disguised newspaper correspondent) hailed the President-Elect as "greatest fisherman," and presented him with a gift which he said would prove valuable. It was a toy fish labelled Congress. Mr. Hoover asked what bait was needed for this fish. Soft soap, said Santa...
...surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet (1917-20) had just tried desperately to prove himself fit for Malmaison-and failed...
...women made that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...
Mima. David Belasco is the grand old man of the U.S. theatre. To prove this, he wears a turn-around collar and permits himself to be photographed frequently with a benign facial expression. Like Flo Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan and certain other producers, he is never publicly designated as ridiculous. For the last few weeks, articles have appeared in news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly...
Founders of the Schubert Memorial bewailed in their prospectus the slim chances of talented U. S. artists as against widely advertised ones with European reputations. Last week, as if to prove their point for them, there appeared again in Manhattan Vladimir Horowitz, 25-year-old Russian pianist who made his U. S. debut last winter. He played next day after the Schubert Memorial's concert, in the same hall with the same Philharmonic players and Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that...