Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Italy onetime Metropolitan Opera Tenor Tito Schipa, 53, arrived suddenly in Lisbon. He explained: "Only those who have experienced the sensation of stage fright can judge how one feels when bombs are exploding just a little way off."
Least violent is Career in C Major, which is intentional opéra bouffe. Its hero is Leonard Borland, a big-time contractor stalled by the Depression. He is the henpecked husband of an awesome socialite with a nasty disposition and a maniacal ambition to be a singer. Leonard is...
Alicia Markova is, by practically unanimous consensus, the greatest ballerina . alive. Only the cautious conservatism of ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations only by Marie Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova...
Richmond Morcum of New Hampshire was the sensation of the meet as he walked off with three titles tucked under his belt. He took the high jump with a 6 ft., 4 in. leap and the broad jump with a 23 ft., 10 in. effort, and finished a good day...
They came up out of the Times Square subways like pilgrims bound for Mecca. Most of them were children. Some were draped to the bricks in green porkpie hats, sharp canary-yellow coats, shrunken-ankle pants, and knee-length watch chains which tinkled in the 4 a.m. gloom. Zootsuited or...