Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadway Matinee Idol Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, 57, had something new to put him farther ahead of the theater's other romantic leads: his first grandchild, a boy, born to his daughter, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Claudia Pinza...
...with medievalism. For some time the Brown campus, with university-owned houses scattered over several Providence blocks, had been easy prey for sneak thieves. In one year they had made 'off with more than $8,000 worth of student property. President Wriston thought that the stockade would put a stop to that...
Bruins figured that the new layout would put a stop to something else: the traditional rambunctiousness of the fraternities. During pledge week last winter, fraternity high jinks ended in one student death, several hundred dollars worth of property damage, and a finger-shaking from President Wriston, who called the fraternities "discriminatory, nondemocratic, and anti-intellectual...
...always on the air-five days a week, 52 weeks out of the year-Mona Kent had to lead a double life to get her novel written. For two weeks at a time she would concentrate on her radio show and get far enough ahead so that she could put in one week's work on the book. As a result: "The novel's slick, too, in places. Whenever I got to a dramatic point I found myself letting go with everything I learned in soap opera...
...Mendelssohns' silver wedding anniversary, and their 20-year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though...