Word: di
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucia di Lammermoor: "Her brother done her dirt, and she went nuts on E flat above high...
DISCOURAGED? CALL DI...
...voice that answers at DI 0614 belongs to a short, 70-year-old woman with straggly grey hair, restless hands and a tranquil face. For the past four years, Julia A. Shelhamer, widow of a Free Methodist evangelist, has lived in her mission-a row-house in one of Washington's worst slums. With the help of two assistant ministers, their wives and her own 77-year-old sister, she conducts church and Sunday school services, plus a full schedule of community activities, for a congregation that is about half Negro, half white. "Sometimes," she says, "there are just...
...comparatively wealthy man, Verdi gave some 450,000 lire, five years before he died, at 87, to establish a Casa di Riposo for worn-out musicians. In his will he left it 250,000 lire, plus all future opera royalties...
...wooden baton-waver (in fact, he usually leads from the drums), Bruno gets deep into the act, taking his place in the conga line, occasionally even cutting in on couples dancing past. Gurgled one fat Florentine matron after a round with the master in the Posso di Beatrice, a cellar nightclub in a 13th Century palace: "This Bruno makes me feel like a five-year...