Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coloratura warbling. Last week, when Coloratura Pons hurried off to Palm Beach, Fla. to nurse a sudden cold, General Manager Edward Johnson shoved a brand-new Italian soprano, Lina Aimaro, into her part in Lucia di Lammermoor. A packjammed audience went to hear her, found Soprano Aimaro an earnest young Model T coloratura, with good top notes and a tendency to stall...
Last week on opening day, when free tickets were broadcast, 15,000 spectators turned out. The rest of the week, while the stables were filled to capacity, a comparative handful of customers rattled around in Gulfstream's big steel grand stand. Young Jack Horning, who had sunk $1.400,000 in the venture, wondered if the racing commission's first thought had not been best. It was. After four days Gulfstream Park closed. But not for good, insisted Owner Horning...
Tiger Fox, a cagey Negro fighter, was 3-to-1 favorite. But Jimmy Grippo was not dismayed. In the last two years his hypnotic stare had never let him down. Before each fight he put burly, clumsy young Bettina through a ritual that was publicized as a hypnotic treatment; after each fight his protege emerged undefeated...
...have watched more dramatic history in the making than John Hay. At 22 this spirited, sharp-eyed son of an Illinois doctor became assistant to Abraham Lincoln's wartime private secretary, John G. Nicolay. An adept in handling cranks and job-hunters, a shrewd political observer, personable, sympathetic, young Hay quickly rose in Lincoln's esteem, went everywhere in wartime Washington, missed little. He shared a room in the White House with his good friend Nicolay, held many a nightshirt conversation with the "Ancient," or the "Tycoon," as he nicknamed Lincoln...
...April 18, six days after Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter, young Hay started a diary, hastily scrawled late at night, the most immature and most vivid writing he ever did. Much of the present selection was omitted from the privately printed edition of Hay's letters and diary published by his widow...