Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reluctant, with heavy misgivings, the Grand Councilors of San Marino ratified the railway treaty with Italy...
...compete for four annual Prix de Rome scholarships.* One prize is for painting, one for sculpture, one for architecture, one for landscaping. The winners receive, $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus free lodgings and studios at the American Academy in Rome, plus life membership? in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...
...Founded by a group of architects and artists including Charles F. McKim, John La Farge, E. H. Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, in 1897, under the stimulus of the Chicago World's Fair. These Prix de Rome are not to be confused with the Grand Prix de Rome, an annual French Government award to only one painter, sculptor, engraver, architect or musician, instituted by Napoleon...
...London Opera Syndicate, which backs the opera at Covent Garden, presents Britain with its only season of truly "grand" opera.* Some two-thirds of the Syndicate's singers are well known to U. S. audiences for they come from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York?Maria Jeritza, Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Lauritz Melchior, Rudolf Laubenthal and many another...
...Other London companies which perform opera undistinguished by the vague adjective "grand," or by the fuss and bustle of a "season's opening," are the British National Opera Company, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (solely Gilbert & Sullivan operas), the Royal Carlo Rosa Opera Company (all-English cast), the Royal Victoria Hall Company...