Word: enrico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with billions of ladybugs. . . . I was taken for a Frenchman in Damascus and bombarded with rotten fruit . . . . No wonder! Near there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira (4¢) as his fee. . . . I am sure that...
Captain Ernest Ingram, famed divorced husband of the widow of Enrico Caruso, dashed out upon the floor and gave vent to a "Scotch Highland Charleston...
...Enrico Gasparri, recently apostolic nuncio in Brazil, nephew of His Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State and Camerlengo, prospective administrator of certain papal functions should the Pope...
...Eminence Enrico Cardinal Gasparri, nephew of a living Cardinal, His Holiness had to dispense from his Church rule: "In keeping with the provisions for the promotion to the nobility, illegitimates, even when legitimated by later marriage, are ineligible, also the fathers of legitimate children, nephews of cardinals and those related to a cardinal in the first or second degree of consanguinity. Of course the Pope can occasionally dispense from these qualifying conditions...
Rosa Ponselle sang in the season's premiere, La Juive, at the Metropolitan last week. She had not been heard in the role since Christmas Eve, 1920, when she assisted in the last public appearance of Enrico Caruso...