Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of supercilious critics there are thousands of music lovers and many big-league critics who rate Martinelli as the greatest of all tenors [TIME, July 3]. Caruso was never the "undisputed" supreme among the "chandelier-jigglers" either. Caruso's voice, though thrilling, certainly, was something like a trip hammer, and eventually busted his neck...
Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 80, of Michigan, who claims a "pipeline to God" (TIME, June 12), last week described, in a public statement, what he saw during his trip last month to the Governors' Conference at Albany, Saratoga Springs and in New York City. Lurid was the word for the observations of the Governor, whose lifelong dream is the revival of prohibition. Excerpts...
...charming little girl in her sweet innocency, by high-life rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
...late partner, Wilbur C. Hawk, nipped a coin to determine which would be Democrat, which Republican. Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably won't be too sorry. Never has he returned from a trip to his Texas duck blinds, daily golf, bridge & poker that he hasn't cried: "I'm never, never going away again...
...been looking high & low for just such a heroine.* Jimmy Suttou (Tyrone Power), the pressagent sent to Bergen to fetch her, at first treats her merely as Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although Trudi does no skating in her screen test, she makes the grade. Jimmy believes that, as the new star, she can be used to bolster the publicity value of Roger Maxwell...