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Word: botticellian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Emma Eames, 86, last of the great divas* of the "golden age of opera"; in Manhattan. Famed for the technical excellence of her voice and her "Botticellian" beauty, Soprano Eames sang in French, German and Italian opera at the Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 with such glamorous colleagues as Caruso, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Melba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 23, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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