Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty, bright, seemingly healthy child, Susan had never been sick. Yet for the Singer family of Bellingham, Wash., this tragedy a fortnight ago was not entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh...
...diction and an occasional tendency to overact from sheer youthful exuberance (Painter Marcello, in Act I, hurled his brush clear offstage into the orchestra pit). But audience and critics were impressed by the Americans' voices and technique. The best voice in the group, many thought, belonged to Tacoma (Wash.) Baritone Roald Reitan, who sang briefly last year with the San Francisco Opera. Ohio-born Tenor Jean Deis, who was told when he was nine that scarlet fever would prevent him from ever speaking again, also got a generous round as Rodolfo. The most popular Americans were Texas Soprano Sara...
...this is familiar jungle rot, but Scriptwriter Milton Holmes has supplied some measure of balm. He gives Hero Todd a sturdy slug of cussedness with which to wash down the. standard mixture of courage and nobility. And beneath his heroine's wayward bust beats no bromidic heart of gold; she is tough, sardonic, shrewdly mindful of her best interests, passionate only as an escape from boredom. When she finally comes to love her man, it is with an old pro's brand of affection-wary, oddly sincere, and rooted in open-eyed recognition that he is probably...
Among the 131 resolutions published last week with the encyclical letter of the 1958 Lambeth conference was a report on "The Family in Contemporary Society." made by a 38-man committee, headed by Bishop Stephen F. Bayne Jr. of Olympia. Wash. Highlights...
...knows, it is accuracy on approaches and around the greens that saves strokes and wins tournaments. In women's golf, one of the best short games belongs to 20-year-old Anne Quast of Marysville. Wash., a pretty, dark-eyed Stanford University coed. Last week at the 58th U.S. Amateur championship in Darien, Conn., personable Anne used string-straight approaches and deadeye putts to whip the field...