Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From Hollywood, where he is working on a movie called Mr. Imperium, Basso Ezio (Some Enchanted Evening) Pinza, 58, announced that his second wife, Doris, 31, is expecting a third child in December...
From Geneva, where he is still waiting to be called to his throne, Belgium's King Leopold announced that his second wife, the Princess de Rethy, is expecting a baby (her second) early next year...
...Sewanee's All Saints' Chapel last week, a capacity crowd of 600 heard the second concert in the festival's survey. The audience was lulled into false security with some Haydn and Mozart quartets, then given the business: Walter Piston's new (1949) piano quintet, with Harris' wife Johana ("Lady Jo") at the piano. Written in modern idiom, with awkward, angular intervals, grating harmonies and jolting semi-jazz rhythms, it left its listeners bewildered and politely awed. When it was over, the audience stood up (applause in the chapel was ruled out) to show...
...experts had not remembered the sad case of DDT, whose use has developed in many places new breeds of resistant insects. Forewarned by this disturbing experience, they gathered seed from some of the hardy Johnson grass survivors and tried the effect of 2,4-D on the second generation. It was just as they feared. Twice as many grass seedlings poked through the soil and twice as many grew to full, pestiferous maturity...
Last week, in a second column, Chapman tried again to set Todd straight. "In my first-night notice," he wrote, "I had called Peep Show an old-fashioned stag smoker and I said I was embarrassed because I had a lady with me ... I did say the girls were numerous and beautiful, the costumes were far from numerous, scenery was lavish . . . But I was frankly relieved when my wife and Vassar daughter ... went home at the intermission...