Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions of the world's other musical centres...
Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...
...ready to publish a second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale's Edward S. Noyes, Iowa's Carl Seashore, Harvard's Charles Swain Thomas, University of Chicago's Ralph W. Tyler...
Married. Robert Larrimore ("Bobby") Riggs, 21, cocky little U. S. national amateur tennis champion; and Catherine Ann Fischer, 21; in Chicago...
Rates: Governed by no general rules, shrouded in metaphysical complexity are U. S. freight rates. No rhyme or reason explains why iron products move from Chicago to Los Angeles more cheaply than from Denver, which is roughly half the distance. There are countless parallel cases. High rates on less-than-carload freight originally invited the trucks into the business, which they are handling at lower rates than the roads can meet...