Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...
...half-dozen longer ones are all it contains, yet few collections of contemporary verse are so homogeneous. The verses, almost without exception, strike a note of gentle sadness, a tone which pervades the entire book. The title is significant. One feels that A.E. is saying farewell to all the "sweet-memoried" (to use his own phrase), things of earth. It is not an unpleasant theme, but rather one which lends an atmosphere of things long past to verses delicately and sensitively handled...
Cheerful Little Earful and Sweet Jennie Lee (Victor)-The National Cavaliers (also a male quartet) are a close second with their quick-change rhythms...
People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...
...poets' wives are fitted to write about their lately lyric husbands, but some do. Latest rusher-in is Helen Thomas, relict of the late Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917. If you have a sweet tooth for idyllic romance you will chew on this with gusto; if not, World Without End may make your teeth a little edgy...