Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy house; one locked room was haunted. To this unlikely refuge came Katherine, an unwanted sister-in-law, with her baby daughter Mary, because she had nowhere else to go. Phoebe, taciturn bully of the household, hated Katherine because she could not bully her. Milly, the prying gossip and Lucia and Emma, the ineffectual twins kept a frightened neutrality. Katherine soon died, but with her last breath warned the sisters to be kind to Mary, or else?. Sinister old Phoebe transferred her hatred of the mother to the child. The other old maids, in powerless horror, thought they were about...
...fell in love. Still Phoebe, dead but restless, threatened her, and still her mother's influence thwarted an almost materialized evil. In time Mary's son was sent to the house for a visit; the old warfare continued. With the outwardly insane but inwardly heroic death of Lucia, the last old lady. Author Spencer rings down the curtain on a ghost story that is also a subtly convincing psychological drama, a novel that might have been ghosted by Henry James himself...
...Discipline has suffered many a rude shock. There was the disgraceful affair off Malta in 1928 when Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard was compulsorily retired for shameful conduct, such as insulting Bandmaster Percy Barnacle (TIME, March 6, 1928 et seq.). Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor that their Christmas leave was to be cancelled and that they were to paint ship on Sunday (TIME, Jan. 19). All papers last week harked back to the great mutiny of 1797 when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned...
People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...
...ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde, Aïda, La Navar-raise and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Tannhäuser, Otello, Forrest's Camille, The Bartered Bride, Lucia di Lammermoor...