Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slope above the valley of Petra. . . . The interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous story was scarcely greater than that of archaeologists. Petra is a historical mystery. It was the capital of the plundering Nabataeans whose domain, in 100 B. C., stretched from Damascus on the north to Gaza on the west, through Palestine and east into the Arabian Desert. Some unrecorded tragedy wiped out the Nabataeans and made their city shunned by Arabs. The location was lost to European science until a German explorer found it again in 1812. . . . British Museum savants, aided now by their country's protectorate...
Luigi Golinelli, giant white-haired basso, whose locks are snowier than the fleeces of Sharon, whose voice could shake the walls of Gaza; Spartaco Morgia, dramatic tenor, with barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious...