Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Livornese macaroni maker, 34-year-old Masini worked once as a stevedore, then as a mechanic, was sent to Milan by admiring townsmen. He claims that he never took a singing lesson, that the Milanese taught him only repertory. He made a debut in Livorno (Tosca) in 1928 and has sung since at La Scala and other leading European opera-houses...
Like Stephen Foster (Old Black Joe) and Ethelbert Nevin (The Rosary), Cadman was born in Pennsylvania (Johnstown, 1881). His father was an employe for many years in the Carnegie Steel mills in Duquesne. Leaving public school at 14, Cadman took up music in earnest, and 14 years later supported himself in Pittsburgh by playing the organ and teaching the piano. After two years as music critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch he spent a short time studying in Austria...
Last week Cricketer Hammond decided he could not make a living at cricket, and took a job with an English rubber firm. When the season starts Walter Hammond will walk through the gentlemen's door, and see his name in the score books as "W. R. Hammond." For, reversing the procedure of U. S. athletes, Walter Hammond had turned amateur...
...than driving high-powered automobiles or airplanes, quite as dangerous and thrilling. To increase the knowledge of skiing and make it a little less dangerous for the untrained or badly trained 75% of U. S. skiers, whose numbers are increasing 100% each year, the National Ski Association last week took steps. The association, a member of the Federation Internationale de Ski, believes that U. S. skiing has reached the point where only teachers of proven qualifications should give skiing instruction, as is the custom in Europe. To gain this approval, plus a handsome diploma, potential U. S. Ski-meisters journeyed...
...nose into a U. S. election campaign. A month later he became Lord Sackville, finished out a long, lazy life "reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married the heir to Knole, first cousin Lionel Sackville-West, shy, quiet. the perfect English country gentleman, five years her junior...