Word: tiaraed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night after night the Met was packed to the fire-limit (for an alltime record ballet box-office gross of $256,000). In four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...
...final meeting Sunday afternoon the group will pass upon the regional budget and tiara the plenary report of the conference...
...Francisco operagoers were having more fun than a picnic. At first they giggled, then they laughed; soon they were standing up and screaming "Encore!" It was all because of a new basso no one had ever heard of before. "He's wonderful," cried a lady with a tiara...
...Tiara-bearing Betty Henderson, 72, antic favorite of Manhattan society columnists (she's the one who hoisted her leg on to a table at the opera opening last fall), wore a bandaged hand after a recreational workout at Packey O'Gatty's Gym. She busted it hoisting the jaw of her sparring partner...
...Purcell's Steps. In an age when even opera's best friends are calling it decadent, bright young Benjamin Britten's admirers acclaim him as the wonder boy who will restore the glitter to opera's tarnished tiara. In England, which has never produced a composer to match its poets and playwrights, critics call him the likeliest English opera discovery since Henry Purcell composed Dido and Aeneas for a girls' boarding school 250 years...