Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formalized the lease to the U. S. of sites for naval and air bases in Newfoundland (six pieces of land, one of them 2,610 acres); Bermuda (five parcels of land, totaling 545 acres); Jamaica (six areas of land and water, totaling 55 sq. mi. and 275 acres); St. Lucia (more than 1,255 acres); Antigua (1.4 sq. mi. and 430 acres); Trinidad (one area of 18 sq. mi., one of 12, one of 2 and one of 96 acres); British Guiana (one area of 2½ sq. mi. and one of 1.400 acres...
...quite a U. S. grass-roots enterprise. But neither is it hog-tied to the St. Petersburg-Paris-Monte Carlo tradition, as Mr. Hurok's ballets are. Founded by scholarly Princetonian Richard Pleasant, secretary of the old Mordkin Ballet, the Ballet Theatre has had many backers including Dancer Lucia Chase, widow of President Thomas Ewing Jr. of big Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co. Among the ballerinas, best are Philadelphia-born Karen Konrad and beauteous 22-year-old Texan Nana Gollner...
...Ellen Berg,11. In a soprano that was emotionless, usually hall-size, usually on pitch, she sang an air from Mozart's Magic Flute. Sophisticated kids and mammas gave each other sidelong looks when Conductor Rudolph Ganz announced that Ellen Berg would next sing the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. On that glassy surface, double-runners are not allowed. Coloratura Berg sailed out cleanly, figure-eighted through her trills, skidded a couple of times into her flute accompanist, ducked low to coast into her final note an octave below the conventional high E flat. Wisely, she made...
...Joyces (wife Nora, son Giorgio) lived in Paris. His daughter Lucia, who suffered from a nervous disorder, was in a sanatorium near St. Nazaire. A devoted father, Joyce worried much about Lucia, spent a good part of the income left him by Admirer Harriet Weaver on Lucia's doctor and sanatorium bills. When war broke out, he hurried to St. Nazaire...
...Lucia, Rigoletto, Mignon, Barber of Seville, Linda di Chamounix, Somnambula, Coq d'Or, Tales of Hoffmann, Lakmé (her favorite...