Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, returned from Europe last week, announced that, among other novelties, he will put on four operas never before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...
Play began. After the conventional eliminations of the first and second rounds, Williams crushed Borotra, and William Johnston, not without dust and heat, defeated Manuel Alonzo, the Flower of Spain. In that round Wallace Johnson came to his first test. He was bracketed against James Anderson, Captain of the Australian Davis Cup Team...
...Baltimore. Japan with its Harada defeated Spain despite its dashing Manuel Alonso in the elimination trials for the Davis Cup matches...
When he had done, it was the inning of Manuel Quezon, President of the Senate, leader of the Nationalist (dominant) Party opposing Wood. Said...
...Hartford saw Tennis Champion William T. Tilden II make his arms into pointed complements, while his body-the sum of their two right angles-remained a straight line that bounded from point to point of an oblong parallelogram of green turf, other factor of this geometric contes was Manuel Alonso, the Spaniard, whose returns went into the net, over the baseline, whose wrist played him false so that Tilden defeated him with ease, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, winning the New England Tennis Championship...