Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Livy's 2,000-year-old account. As usual in his later work he had been sparing with orchestral effects, taken pains that voices should nearly everywhere prevail. Many pronounced Lucrezia the best opera Respighi ever wrote. The audience of 3,000 cheered and cheered. Conductor Marinuzzi took seven bows. But the composer did not take any, nor were there any calls for him, for Ottorino Respighi died last April...
Italian opponents are lucky for Don Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months...
...arrived, started studying to be a pharmacist. He bought his first store on Chicago's South Side when he was 29, his second in 1909 when he was 36. Founding of C. R. Walgreen & Co. in that year so fired his expansion enthusiasm that he acquired seven more stores in the next seven years. In 1916, when the present Walgreen Co. was incorporated, his nine stores in Chicago sold $270,000 worth of goods...
From his Barrett association and his advertising activities he went on into Bon Ami, Technicolor, Boorum & Pease Co. But advertising remained his first love. In 1930, having then but his one office in Manhattan, he merged his agency with H. K. McCann Co., giving the new firm seven U. S. and three European offices, adding to the impressive list of Erickson accounts such majors as the Standard Oil group, California Packing, Zonite, Beech...
...seven years hard" that Kipling worked as a journalist in India gave him all his training, most of his material, laid the foundations of a success that would resound in any day. He was 50% of his paper's white staff, and since his married chief dined at home and he at the club, heard daily what his readers thought of him. The manifold duties of his job, the consciousness of being an English sahib, matured Kipling precociously. He was green, but not for long. "My Chief took me in hand and for three years or so I loathed...