Word: di
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five regular subscription series Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday evenings and Saturday matinees, a new series of twelve Sunday matinees and six or seven Friday night performances. No new operas have been announced, but there will be several revivals: La Navarraise (Rosa Raisa), Monna Vanna and Sapho (Mary Garden), Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva...
Last month a discontented Italian remained in Venice. His discontent arose from engine trouble which forced him out of the recent Schneider Cup races won by English Flight Lieutenant S. N. Webster at 281 miles an hour. Discontented Major Mario di Bernardi tinkered with his engine. Last week he summoned a committee of the International Aeronautic Federation; flew. When he descended watches recorded he had traveled faster than man and his machines have ever traveled. Speed: 301.185 miles per hour...
After Burns and Guarnaccia had combined to put over the first touchdown the regulars found the going rather di...
Charles Calmer Hart, U. S. Minister at Tirana, capital of Albania (a small country on the Adriatic Sea, sandwiched between Jugoslavia and Greece), was informed by the Government of Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania, that Port San Giovanni di Medua, on the northwestern coast, will be re- named Port Wilson, as promised by Bishop Fan Noli, onetime (1924) Prime Minister, in recognition of Woodrow Wilson's part in consolidating the independence of Albania...
Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari made by an Italian woman of the 17th Century was a favorite cosmetic for women. It was a colorless, tasteless liquid, kept on women's dressing tables. After some 600 affectionate husbands of gaddy wives had died with terrible stomach gripes, authorities discovered that the Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari was a preparation of arsenic sold to impatient wives by the Tiffana. She was executed...