Word: desideria
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...Daughter Desideria does not think so either. She is shocked out of an obese adolescence by her mother's goings...
...baritone cantor. Gussie Seit became Gloria Lane in her teens, after she won a Y.M.H.A. amateur contest singing Let Yourself Go. She abandoned a $40-a-week secretarial job to win the role of the secretary in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like Carmen, required her to die of a knife wound each evening. ''I've been dying for a couple of years," said she at the time, "and I wonder if there's any future...