Word: maria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Edwards (Democrat): "Hell and Maria?and not much Maria...
...been noticed? Or take the police patrol; here surely is safe and rapid transit, as long as Mr. Dawes took care not to look out of the windows, for even Washington would have been startled to see the Vice-President peering anxiously through the bars of a Black Maria...
...Vice-President Dawes in his unprecedented inaugural address. The speech which inspired alternate indignation and amusement in the august chamber of Senators has been the most talked-of event in the inaugural day and occasioned violent opinions on both sides. In Professor Holcombe's opinion the "hell without Maria", of which the senators complained, is the best thing which that very self-important body has heard for some time...
Libretto. Gallurese, a "high-souled outlaw," Maria, a lovely daughter of a poor shepherd, Rivegas, a Spanish renegado, folk dances from the Sardinian, drinking choruses, religious choruses, innocence outraged, bloody murder...
...Maria Jeritza, famed soprano, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, sang in Fedora. Opposite her played Tenor Gigli, one whose voice is like honey tapering from the underside of a spoon, but whose height is abbreviated. Now Jeritza, as all the world knows, is a queenly lady "tall as a tall church candle" (TIME, Jan. 5). Mr. Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli...