Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over There"-"Goodbye Broadway, Hello France-"The Rose of no Man's Land"- "K K-K-Katy" - "Keep Your Down, Fritzie Boy"-"Where Do We Go from Here, Boys"-"Over There" Selection, "The Fighting Allies...
...Johnnie Walker," said Princess Margaret Rose...
...place it reached was the passenger section in the belly, about one-third back from the bow. Silhouetted by the holocaust, passengers began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes...
...Mate Frederick J. Tobin, in charge of the ground crew: "Navy men, stand fast! We've got to get those people out of there!" With tremendous bravery, scores of gobs and civilians dashed headlong back to the conflagration. Though the heat was so intense that thermometers rose in the Navy Aerological School 500 yd. away, the rescuers charged into the control cabin and the passenger quarters. As one observer put it: "Those boys dived into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled to the skin in back, his hair ablaze, his face rutted...
Chief noveltv of the week was the Il Trovatore in which Rose Bampton sang her first soprano role at the Metropolitan. Since her debut in 1932 Miss Bampton has always been billed for contralto or mezzo roles. Last autumn she sang the exacting role of Leonora in Munich, Prague and Stockholm, but saved her U. S. soprano debut for the spring season. Audiences rejoiced that personable Miss Bampton was trustworthy in the high notes, could hit D without difficulty, would now be able to sing soprano heroines instead of old, villainous contralto women...