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Word: donnas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When months are cold, placid Donna Rachele Mussolini dwells with her children in Milan; but with approaching spring she moves out to the Mussolini estate at Forli, where, each summer, Il Duce indulges in a brief fit of farm labor which he calls "fighting the battle of the grain." At such times, and during the Christmas and Easter visits of Signor Mussolini to Milan, it is possible that he is persuaded, cajoled, nagged. But he is only known to have yielded once. On this occasion-just prior to the birth of Babe Romano-Donna Mussolini begged and received a decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Wives | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Rosa Raisa, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, who sailed April 13 for their villa near Verona, Italy, are expecting the birth of a child next August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blessed Event | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Only at a few selected seasons, such as Christmas and Eastertide, does Signor Benito Mussolini abandon his august bachelor existence at Rome and journey to Milan, there to live for a few days with his totally self-effacing consort Donna Rachele Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Husband's Week | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Married. Miss Louise Hunter, prima donna of Golden Dawn, current light opera in Manhattan; to Henry Haven Winsor Jr., of Evanston, ill., wealthy publisher of Popular Mechanics; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...musically, waxed enthusiastic and fairly hugged itself in the thrill of a new discovery. It was a Faust rejuvenated, lifted well out of the operatic rut, a Faust as true to the spirit of Goethe's poem as to Gounod's music. There was no portly prima donna past her prime to parade as the guileless Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed, no paunchy, heroic Faust singing to the gallery. All that had been discarded. Instead, the curtain went up on one Faust, an aged dissatisfied philosopher with a voice a little pinched, and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Opera | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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