Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Pianist Alfred Cortot and a few others. Of the 97 principals in the Metropolitan Opera Company, in recent years there has been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering as the aged philosopher. Transformed by Mephistopheles, stripped of his old-man's robe and shorn...
...strict disciplinarian, General Crosby prepared to carry "military methods" into his new job. A West Pointer (1893), a veteran campaigner in the Philippines, Mexico and France, he announced: "If there were no problems to overcome, there would be no job." When he said he would treat Prohibition like any other law to be enforced, everyone knew that he was saying exactly what the White House wanted him to say on an. issue President Hoover thinks has been unduly exaggerated. Bewailing the Hoover policy of "putting outsiders" in charge of local government, Washington citizens recalled the spectacular efforts of another military...
...ruddy, stalwart Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, 66, of Westerham, Kent, native of India, veteran army officer and diplomatist, treaty-maker with Tibet (1904)*, committee head of the expedition to climb unconquered Mount Everest. In Manhattan he was guest of honor at a "Tea Conference" of The Threefold Movement, of which he is London committee chairman. He told his hosts why no attempt has recently been made to scale the world's highest peak. Said he: "The Tibetans believe that their gods have been offended and are angry and so have requested us not to apply at present for leave...
...Murphy's form is far superior to that of the veteran," commented the diminutive mentor of Harvard's squash and tennis teams, "and he has concentrated on the hardwood court game throughout his career, while Hunter is known chiefly for his ability on grass courts. I shouldn't be much surprised to see Murphy wear the next indoor crown...
...much attention was given to Barber Windsor that passengers and correspondents almost overlooked the distinguished old gentleman who played King Neptune. If H.R.H. is an Equatorial veteran, Rear Admiral Alfred Astley Ellison might be called an Equatorial commuter. Retired in 1922, it is his boast that he has been almost continuously at sea since the age of 15. He has served in the East and West Indies, in the Mediterranean, Africa, China. In 1901 he was Navigating Lieutenant of the vessel which carried King George and Queen Mary (then Duke and Duchess of York) round Britain's colonies. Though...