Word: tad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather a dandy, in a loud way. His favorite sport was poker. He could be a wonderfully entertaining host. William Randolph Hearst loved him. His own close friends were chiefly comic-strip artists - Hershfield, Ru dolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids}, Jim Swinnerton (Little Jimmy), the late TAD Dorgan (Indoor Sports). His best friend was the late H. M. (Beanny) Walker, Our Gang comedies director...
...large exception is Helen Traubel, a redhaired, green-eyed, 200-lb. Midwesterner who for the past four years has been singing more & more Wagnerian leads at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Rated by some critics the vocal equal of famed Kirsten Flags tad (whose roles she has inherited), Helen Traubel is far & away the finest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation, and one of the three or four finest in the world. Last week, as the Metropolitan's annual Wagner cycle came to an end, Traubel could claim an added distinction: no other U.S. soprano since Nordica had sung...
...Tad Wieman, out for his first win in the Stadium, was a typical coach, non-committal about his own squad, while complaining that Harvard always starts to play good football in time for his team. He claims to be "prepared for the worst...
Major social functions of the Varsity Club center about the annual fall dinner, and spring luncheon. These dinners have been highlighted by famous speakers from Harvard and other colleges. The roster has included President James B. Conant '14, of Harvard, James P. Baxter '26, President of Williams College, Tad Wyman, head football coach of Princeton, and Fritz Krisler, former Princeton coach now working at Michigan...
...Lincoln's death inspired Little Tad ("God bless the little orphan boy, a father's darling pride"), post-war scorn for the South jelled into the unwarranted Jeff in Petticoats. The absurd feminine posture of the late '60s, called the Grecian Bend, was ribbed in a song. So was the style of tasseled shoes...