Word: sigrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven European laureates who have arrived in the U.S. in recent years are: Maurice Maeterlinck, Sigrid Undset, Thomas Mann (literature); Sir Norman Angell (peace); Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye (chemistry); Otto Meyerhof, Otto Loewi (physiology and medicine); Albert Einstein, James Franck, Victor Franz Hess, Enrico Fermi (physics...
...cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani and to Covarrubias, the breath-taking photography of Steichen, Beaton, Lohse, Baron Hoyningen-Huene; and the vivid drama of fashion-drawings by Carl Ericsson, Sigrid Grafstrom, Count René Bouët-Willaumez and many others, which in turn influenced all U.S. advertising art. Vogue became a feminine bible of taste. Even its cheesecake was cool and cultured: cheesecake prettily iced. Technician Nast became a millionaire...
...when I want to. ∙∙ Matinee Idol Francis Lederer married Marion Irvine four days after his exwife, Marge, brought suit for $12,822.23. She said he signed a promissory note for that sum the day she sued for divorce last December. ∙∙ Brooklyn-born Sigrid Gurie (Algiers, Marco Polo) applied for U.S. citizenship, but not as a gag. The cinemactress Sam Goldwyn acclaimed as a genuine Scandinavian importation (like Garbo) had lost her citizenship when her parents took her back to their former home in Norway. ∙∙ Billy Rose is taking time out from flesh spectacles, putting...
...Popular singers in Berlin include several who have sung in the U. S.: Soprano Frida Leider, a success at the Chicago and Metropolitan operas, now devoting herself to Lieder as well as opera; Contralto Sigrid Onegin, whose voice is no longer at its peak. Oddly, a British singer, Marjorie Booth, gets much applause at the State Opera. So, at the Charlottenburg Opera, does an American, tall, blonde, 25-year-old Polyna Stoska...
Fair, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 19, daughter of fair, blue-eyed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, after a venIn Oslo, the Quisling Government ordered burned all books by Nobel Prize Novelist Sigrid Undset, who is now in the U. S. Grounds: her works (chronicling Norway's rich medieval past) were not national...