Word: weights
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most of the chance, although the heft of the last two made the fun pretty heavy going. Lily Pons's principal worry is keeping her weight up to 105 lb., which she does by eating plenty of potatoes...
...service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked at top speed. Last week, for dessert, the British attempted to offset their shipping losses by placing a $100,000,000 order for 60 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighters in the U. S. For this, the largest single merchant-ship order ever placed, Todd Shipyards started building two new yards, one in California, one in Maine...
Madden's pet hate is Manhattan's cafe-society crowd. "The whole racket," he once wrote, "is nothing but a Show-Off Handicap. It's a good thing it aint a weight for age race or some of them fillies could never lift a foot. Everything, clothes and talk, is loud and cheap and I'm convinced that most of them, if they could get two more people to turn around and look at them, or could get their kisser in another toothpaste ad, a mention by a columnist or their picture in a tab, they...
...biographers and critics had a good year, led in interest by Van Wyck Brooks's New England: Indian Summer and in weight by Newman Ivey White's ten-pound, two-volume Shelley. It was the year of a posthumous volume by Mark Twain. The one volume of great poetry was not a new poet's, but the last work of W. B. Yeats...
...towards a blind entry into the European war. The Union is trying, not to turn its back on the crisis, but to evolve a program of domestic and foreign policy which will insure that civil liberties and social legislation are preserved and extended in America; and that America's weight in foreign affairs will be thrown rationally and intelligently on the side of world democracy and peace...