Word: slim
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Following nights, the Met noodled through a routine Walküre, a passable Madame Butterfly. Then it presented Samson and Delilah, with its first U. S.GALLERY-GOERS AT THE MET Also present: orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff...
...Titus (Tomboy Jean Arthur), the only white woman in Tucson, who earns herself a pretty penny selling pies for $1 apiece, then goes into the freighting business. The gentleman with whom she later contracts Arizona's first all-white marriage is genial, peripatetic Peter Muncie (William Holden), a slim and smiling young pioneer who rides into Tucson with other settlers and passes some fond words with Phoebe before setting out for California to join the Union Army...
Slick little Harry Pilcer, the Fred Astaire of 30 years ago, was only one of the devotees of slim, baby-eyed Parisian Dancer Gaby Deslys, who, according to legend, helped King Manoel II of Portugal lose his throne. When Gaby died, Harry Pilcer became executor for her $2,000,000 estate. Back to his native U. S. last week, banished by the Nazis from the 21-room Paris apartment of his late, fabled dancing partner (which he had kept as a shrine after her death in 1920), came aging Harry Pilcer...
Cape Burnam and Al Bartholemy, who featured an otherwise stale Yale team, were the sole Elis to gain spots on the team. Burnam won the right-guard post over Sukup of Michigan by two votes, while Bartholemy got the nod over Krieger of Dartmouth by the same slim margin...
Young Pittman made inquiries at Seattle. Dude Lewis was well known. The slim Southerner was straightway taken in to a law office that was as luxuriously civilized as Seattle was rough and pioneer; greeted by a redhaired, red-bearded man of extreme elegance-James Hamilton Lewis, then only a dude lawyer, but soon to be a Congressman from Washington, later a Senator from Illinois...