Word: luna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were in full command. In the Anvil Chorus, the dancers whirled with so much gusto that the crowd could hardly keep from stomping out the rhythm with them. Standout scene: Azucena's duet with Manrico, her foster-son and the instrument of her revenge against the aristocratic Di Luna family. The ballet, like the opera, ended in a flood of blood, with Azucena, Manrico and his sweetheart dying and the wicked Count di Luna going mad. The curtain came down with Azucena triumphant in her revenge-and, by proxy, Ruth Page triumphant in hers. The work got twelve curtain...
...light of his reputation, nothing seemed more natural than that Lord Byron should have fathered and deserted a son. According to "Major George Gordon de Luna Byron," it happened in Spain in 1809, when the fiery poet swept the Countess de Luna off her feet, secretly married her in a Roman Catholic ceremony, then blandly deserted...
When government employees assembled in Buenos Aires' Luna Park last week to give ceremonial thanks to Juan Perón for a 20% to 30% pay raise, wife Evita Perón was on hand, primed to deliver the invocation...