Word: sloughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a period a few years back when Lily slid into a vocal slough and had more than usual trouble with pitch, but she is back in good stride now. After one more summer concert (she has already sung in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium and Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell), Lily will take a vacation in France with her husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. Then she returns to the U.S. to sing with the San Francisco and Metropolitan Operas, make records (she has sold over 2,000,000 in the past ten years), sing on the radio...
...some antiquated form of transportation, and when he gets to Harvard at last he just cannot enjoy the full benefits of its educational facilities. For many years University Hall, after having looked into the problem from all but the most fantastic angles, has been sunk in a great slough of apathy so far as the commuter is concerned...
...these times of paucity of respect for the past, let us not tamper with the grassy slopes that extend out toward the crass commercialism of Slough . . . If the first Duke of Wellington did not say this in so many words, then one of his post-cedents should have. HARRY HESS New York City...
Goodbye, Mrs. Chips. In Slough, England, Joseph Davies, 26, paid a nostalgic visit to his old schoolteacher, told her proudly of his success in life, then departed with her handbag...
Compensation. Near Long Beach, Calif., Harold Hartigan went duck hunting in Anaheim Slough, bagged a sea bass stranded by the tide; Don Jasiewicz went fishing for sea bass, snagged a duck that tried to snatch his bait...