Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called Pique-Dame (Queen of Spades) because years before as Belle of St. Petersburg she had attended masquerades in such a costume and because-this was only whispered about the court-she knew three cards by which a gambler could infallibly make his fortune. The soldier, Heran, loved Lisa, the granddaughter, but he had no money. The countess's secret preyed upon him and he hid himself one night in her room, sneaked out when she was alone, threatened her, until, from shock, the old lady died...
...spirit stayed on. Lying shrouded in her bier, she blinked an eye owlishly when he bent to kiss her hand. Later at his barracks she came to him, hissed the secret of the cards and disappeared. Lisa disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...
...season's first performance by the Fine Arts Opera Company.* There Russian singers, singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...
Burton brewers have been potent in politics nearly as long. Ale has won them a family peerage (now held by Nellie Lisa Baillie, Baroness Burton) and a family baronetcy, now held by gruff Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, Bart., who went to Harrow, joined the army, upheld the honor of the Burton Basses against the Boers in South Africa...
...irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham...