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Word: elisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elevate his four brothers and three sisters to positions in the Empire that they were ludicrously unsuited to fill. After Austerlitz, for instance, he made his misanthropic brother Louis King of Holland; Brother Joseph became King of Naples; Brother Jérôme became King of Westphalia; Sisters Elisa, Caroline and Pauline received various duchies in Italy; and Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur. Napoleon gave them all immense allowances (which they all shrewdly kited into fortunes-Elisa by reopening the marble quarries at Carrara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Declining Descendants | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...moon?" and ageless (74) Boulevardier Maurice Chevalier is off on as appealing a vocal flight as his admirers could hope to hear. The album's title notwithstanding, Chevalier's stylish approximations of How to Handle a Woman, On the Street Where You Live, I Still See Elisa have nothing to do with Lerner and Loewe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recent Records: Popular | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Florence (May to-June 30). Celebrates the 200th anniversary of Florentine Composer Luigi Cherubini's birth with the first modern performance of his long-forgotten Elisa. The Maggio Musicale will also offer a handful of 20th century works, including Janacek's Jenufa, will feature concerts by Milan's Nuovo Quartette, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, Violinist Isaac Stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Musical Summer Guide to Europe | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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