Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, 66, "the Clarence Darrow of Germany"; after long illness; in Queens, L.I. A Socialist, onetime Prussian Minister of Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
Ever since Hugh Hyde and Bunks Burditt were publicly labelled "unofficial bridge champions of the College" snide remarks have been going about as to the validity of their claim. To silence this sub rosa sabotage the pair have announced that they would be glad, very glad in fact, to meet all comers before their Sunday night match...
Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...stretch run that looked like Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, & floppy-eared chestnut pulled farther & farther in front. It was Mrs. Payne Whitney's The Rhymer, a four-year-old who-despite the fact that he was ridden by Eddie Arcaro, smartest jockey in the business-had been listed among "the field" in the pari-mutuel betting.-At the finish line The Rhymer was a head in front of Best Seller, a 58-to-1 shot. Third was Olympus, another "field horse...
...been so nearly ruined by economic dislocation. Almost at a standstill are exports of quebracho bark and the tanning extract derived from it, and of the Chaco's famed, strange-sounding woods: algarrobo, lapacho, guayabo, guayacdn, caranday, ybird-pyita, ñandubay, aguai, tatané, palo santo, palo de rosa, palo de lanza. And the "white gold," cotton, has proved fool's gold...